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The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is a critical maritime gateway linking the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden, making it central to global trade flows. It is a key route for Saudi oil exports to Asia and European trade via the Suez Canal, with around 10% of global trade and nearly 5% of the world’s…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have declared that Iranian security forces hold the Strait of Hormuz under full control and have warned that any enemy miscalculation would result in forces being trapped in its “deadly vortex”. The Guards’ naval command made the statement in a Persian-language post on X on Sunday, following President Donald Trump‘s order for…
US President Donald Trump, who entered the quagmire of the Iran war with the hope of a swift Iranian capitulation but is now struggling with finding exit options, on Saturday night appeared unperturbed with his predicament as he attended an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event, when his country’s delegation was engaged in hectic talks with…
When Donald Trump or his inner circle declares something the “final or best offer,” it usually lands with all the finality of a Las Vegas casino telling you “this is your last chance to double down”, right before the dealer quietly shuffles the deck again. It is meant to sound decisive, even irreversible, yet those…
New Delhi: US President Donald Trump declared today that the US military will “finish the little that is left of Iran” after high-level peace talks between the two countries collapsed without agreement. The negotiations, held in Pakistan and described as the highest-level meeting between the United States and Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, ended…
US-Israel-Iran War Live Updates: The first phase of US-Iran talks in Islamabad has concluded with both sides now exchanging written texts to confirm agreements, even as earlier face-to-face meetings marked the start of direct negotiations. Limited progress has been reported on key issues, including possible restrictions on strikes in southern Lebanon and movement on unfreezing…
Since February 28, when the United States and Israel struck Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been constructing its tollbooth with methodical precision. Ships wishing to transit must approach an IRGC-linked intermediary and submit documentation: the vessel’s International Maritime Organization number, crew list, cargo manifest, destination, and automated identification system data. The IRGC screens…
Hours after threatening that “a whole civilisation will die tonight,” US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, stepping back from the threat of strikes on the country’s power plants and bridges. Trump announced the ceasefire on Truth Social, saying he had accepted a proposal put…
Hours after threatening that “a whole civilisation will die tonight,” US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, stepping back from the threat of strikes on the country’s power plants and bridges. Trump announced the ceasefire on Truth Social, saying he had accepted a proposal put…
As a projectile landed barely 350 metres from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant on Saturday, the fourth such strike since the war began on February 28, concerns spanned across the Gulf region. Bushehr, itself a city of around 2,50,000 people, is considerably closer to Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar than it is to the Iranian capital….