Tag: Strait of Hormuz

COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing...

Asia Pacific Report Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is "open to all except its adversaries", and any passage through the trajectory of this...

COMMENTARY: By Prince Taofeek Ajibade The signals are now coming from both sides of the negotiating table. American sources confirm it. Pakistani mediators confirm it. The...

ANALYSIS: By Jeremy Scahill Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been on a strategic tour to prepare for two dramatically different paths that could unfold...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury How insane is it that, a Theocracy is winning the propaganda war against a Democracy? How badly has Trump screwed up when...

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle If Iran succeeds in extracting reparations for the damage done to it in the US-Israeli war, it will be a world...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Amy Goodman. As we continue to look at the US and Israeli war on Iran, we’re joined...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Many American apologists cannot see the forest for the trees and think that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz represents...

By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent Most government offices in the Marshall Islands began enforcing a new policy this week of closing...

COMMENTARY: By Prince Taofeek Ajibade US President Donald Trump probably thinks he can starve a country that feeds itself. Washington is selling the naval blockade of...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Most of Iranian oil -- 96.7 percent -- is destined for China. If you note this figure, you will realise that...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean This US naval blockade is meant to strangle the Iranian economy by preventing it from exporting oil -- the economic lifeline...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Ship traffic has halted again in the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump ordered the US military to begin a naval...

COMMENTARY: By Bonface Chisutia On the night of February 28, the Israel-US airstrike killed his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his wife, his brother-in-law...

COMMENTARY: By Robert Reich An hour before Trump said he’d cause the death of a “whole civilisation” if Iran didn’t open the strait of Hormuz,...

COMMENTARY: By Yanis Varoufakis Having launched an illegal, destructive war that brutally struck the entire planet’s economy (and confirmed once again Europe’s combination of irrelevance...

COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, of Sh'ma Koleinu - Alternative Jewish Voices Vietnam survived Nixon’s madman theory and the world survived the era of mutually assured...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle If the US-Israelis escalate, the Saudis should fear for the future of the Yanbu pipeline. So should we -- even if you...

RNZ News New Zealand's Finance Minister says she has "never felt so dependent on the actions and feelings of one administration and its leaders", as...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle In the coming years, if Iran survives as a sovereign state and retains control over the Strait of Hormuz, countries like...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean US President Donald Trump has been obsessed with seizing Iran's Kharg Island for more than 35 years -- way before he...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Jessica Corbett Democrats in Congress have sounded the alarm over US President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran...