Pentagon, DIA and IAEA assessments contradict claims on Iran’s nuclear damage, missile range, enrichment and protest deaths.
Pentagon, DIA and IAEA assessments contradict claims on Iran’s nuclear damage, missile range, enrichment and protest deaths.
News used to come by slow mail, with fingerprints on it and a stamp; somebody had to find it, and there was always a place for them.
Hormuz carried one fifth of global oil and one third of fertilizer trade before its closure, sending energy, food and housing costs higher.
QatarEnergy halted fertilizer output as Hormuz closure stranded nearly one million tons of cargo, threatening harvests across importing nations.
Insurers withdrawing war risk cover stranded oil, LNG, ammonia, phosphates and sulfur, transmitting Gulf disruptions into prices worldwide.
Energy, insurance, and shipping costs are skyrocketing. Inflation is already here. Stagflation is next.
Washington turned postwar reconstruction into control of markets and allies. Iran cannot be remade by a debtor empire without money or leverage.
Operation Epic Fury killed Iran’s supreme leader and ignited a regional war. The food price shock that follows will be measured in famines, not headlines.
The campaign rests on certainty that Iran will yield, yet game theory shows Washington must achieve everything while Tehran only needs to survive.
Polls show voters rejecting strikes on Iran as Trump and his allies abandon the promises that built their coalition and invite a midterm backlash.