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Iran’s Kharg Island: The Strategic Hub at the Heart of Its Oil Industry
Oil prices increased due to rising tensions involving Iran, sparked by a U.S. President Donald Trump's claim regarding Kharg Island oil hub, which an...
Iran Rejects Trump’s Kharg Attack Claim as Conflict Escalates
The latest escalation comes as the six month conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran enters a more uncertain phase. Washington has increasingly...
Can US Iran Escalation Push Global Markets Toward Higher Rates?
Markets End August With Rising Risk
Global financial markets entered the final trading day of August cautiously as renewed fighting between the United States and...
Is Iran’s Kharg Island Under Attack? Trump Offers No Evidence
Trump Claims Kharg Island Is Being Destroyed
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran's Kharg Island was being "blown to smithereens", but provided...
Trump’s Economic D-Day Threatens Everyone Except China
On Truth Social, Donald Trump announced what he called the most crushing economic operation the United States had ever mounted, promising Iran "economic warfare...
The Hormuz Shutdown and the New Fragility of Global Trade’s Most Critical Route
Five ships a day where a hundred used to sail. Six months after the US-Israel strikes on Iran, the world's most critical energy chokepoint...
America Asked Allies to Do More. They Are Also Preparing for a Less Predictable Washington
Taiwan has proposed an 18% increase in its defense budget for 2027, pushing military spending above 3% of GDP as Chinese military and political...
Iran’s Black Box: The New Power Struggle Behind the Hormuz Talks
Central Claim
The diplomatic traffic through Tehran this week, Qatar, Pakistan and Oman all visiting in seven days, has generated the appearance of momentum toward...
Is Iran’s Hidden Supreme Leader Creating a Power Vacuum?
Mojtaba Khamenei Remains Out of Public View
Six months into the war with the United States and Israel, Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has remained...
Xi Jinping and King Abdullah in Beijing: China’s Middle East Strategy, Gaza and the Iran War
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Jordanian King Abdullah II held official talks in Beijing on Monday, August 24, 2026, focusing on de-escalation in the...