Tag: Strait of Hormuz
Correcting the Trump delusions about the Strait of Hormuz
COMMENTARY: Special correspondent
American President Donald Trump posted an image on his Truth Social today. An AI-generated image. It has the Strait of Hormuz circled,...
‘Menace to the world’: With Iran talks stalled, Trump vows to...
By Jessica Corbett of Common Dreams
In yet another remark that triggered alarm around the world, President Donald Trump has said that he planned to...
Strait of Hormuz: It’s not just the numbers – it’s the...
Special Corespondent
Maritime intelligence firm Kpler counted 13 vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday.
The number is small. But the number is not the...
The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding
Special Correspondent
When you hear "Iran" and "Strait of Hormuz" in the same sentence, what comes to mind?
Tensions? Threats? Chaos? ...That’s exactly what the MSM...
When Trump’s Iran ‘deal’ isn’t a deal – it’s the third...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Trump’s Iran "deal” isn’t a deal. It’s hos third retreat in four months.
April 2026: 48-hour ultimatum, then a two-week delay.
July: “13...
Lim Tean: Iran’s Ghalibaf warns US war equation is clear –...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
“If we can’t sell oil, we will make sure you can’t too.”
That is the message Iran’s parliamentary Speaker has just sent...
The illegal US war on Iran – and now the economic...
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean
America’s entire emergency oil reserve now covers 16 days. Sixteen.
The world spent 40 years building a shock absorber for exactly this...
The Dual-Strait Siege – how Iran and the Houthis just closed...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Ten nights of bombing. Zero endgame. And now a second chokepoint just slammed shut.
This is what happens when you resume a...
Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Strip away the communiqués about the embattled Strait of Hormuz and look at the data, because in maritime commerce the data...
Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Two American service members are dead. Another is missing. Four more were medically evacuated after Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck...
The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
The most important response to Trump’s Hormuz announcement did not come from Beijing, Brussels or the United Nations. It came from...
Lim Tean: The Hormuz ‘guardian’ turns pirate – 20% for tribute
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
The United States went to war to stop Iran charging tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. It has now imposed a...
‘Profound strategic misjudgment’ – why Iran may have upper hand in...
RNZ Morning Report
The outcome of the US and Israel war against Iran looks likely to come down to a test of wills, says a...
The Gulf tollbooth that demands real recognition – Iran closes the...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Forty-eight hours ago, I wrote: “Iran doesn't need to close the strait. It needs only to demonstrate, periodically, that it can.”
Today,...
The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean
Former US Vice-President Mike Pence wants Donald Trump to "finish the job" in the Strait of Hormuz.
After 130 days of war...
‘They’re scum.’ F bombs and real bombs. Trump completely outclassed by...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
“They’re scum … they’re led by sick people and they’re vicious, violent people.
There’s something wrong with them. They’re cuckoo. As far...
Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Last night, America bombed Iran. Again.
Dozens of strikes -- four to five times heavier than the last round -- against radar...
The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for...
Israel's legitimacy has been catastrophically squandered. It can only begin to be rebuilt through justice for the Palestinian people, writes Lim Tean.
ANALYSIS: By Lim...
Trump’s war on Iran ends with a ‘triumphant’ Tehran and a...
Democracy Now!
NERMEEN SHAIKH: The United States and Iran have officially signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war in Iran. The signing...
Trump went to war against Iran and got a deal far...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Two days ago, I wrote an article and posted on FaceBook describing the US-Iran ceasefire as a surrender document. That article...
The train that changes everything – the Silk Road railway beats...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
In 1904, a British geographer named Halford Mackinder stood before the Royal Geographical Society in London and delivered what would become...
Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...
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...




































