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Blocking Fertilisers: The Hormuz Strait and Agricultural Shock
The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the usual prized duo that feature in the nervous chatter of global markets. There are other less conspicuous products that have also been snared in the process. Consider fertilisers, […]
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What if Russia and China Had Announced on Friday That They Would Intervene Together to Protect Iran against Unprovoked Aggression
At about noon, Moscow time, on Friday February 27, the Russian Security Council met in a video session. The regular weekly meeting of the Council is often at the end of the week. The Foreign and Defense Ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Andrei Belousov, and the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, participated. Unless Russian […]
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Bibi to Don: You Can’t Use Your Nukes without Starting Armageddon. But We Can Use Ours.
Twice in the last year, Israel and its Big Brother have started a war to crush Iran. Without success. But if at first you don’t succeed… So Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still trying to sell the leader of the dwindling superpower on the idea of destroying Iran. Netanyahu is obsessed, because — in […]
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U.S. divide and rule no more… Washington’s Gulf allies embrace Iran
In a sign of major geopolitical realignment, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states sent warm congratulations to Iran on its newly elected President Masoud Pezeshkian. Saudi King Salman welcomed the news of Iran’s election winner last weekend and said he hoped that the two Persian Gulf nations would continue developing their relations “between our […]
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