Tag: StraitOfHormuz
Maritime Trade Enters the Age of Armed Passage
The modern maritime order is designed to separate a ship's right of passage from the nationality of its owner, the origin of its cargo and the political allegiance of its customer. Across several of the world's most important sea lanes, that separation is beginning to break down.Iran is seeking payments…
Iran Rejects Oman’s Hormuz Strait Plan
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi rejected Oman's proposal for joint management of the Strait of Hormuz, saying on Iranian state television that it failed to address Tehran's security concerns, according to IranWire. Oman had proposed splitting the shipping lane evenly, with half under Iranian control and half under Omani…
Iran Rejects US Ceasefire Timeline as Oil Falls
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that Tehran has no active negotiations with Washington, even as global oil prices posted their steepest one-day decline since early April. Brent futures, the global benchmark, closed at $85.87 a barrel, down 11.3 percent, while US crude fell about 7 percent to…
Iran War Enters 13th Night as Talks Continue
The United States and Iran remain locked in overlapping tracks of warfare and negotiation, with President Trump calling talks the "most serious" yet even as US strikes against Iran continued for a 13th consecutive night. "I think they are by far the most serious that we've seen," Trump told reporters…
Iran Rejects Trump’s New Ceasefire Offer
Iran has rejected a new U.S. ceasefire proposal delivered to Tehran by Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi after his White House meeting with President Donald Trump, according to Iranian and Iraqi officials cited by The New York Times. The White House has not publicly confirmed the proposal or disclosed its…
US Launches Twelfth Night of Iran Strikes
U.S. forces began a new wave of strikes against Iranian military targets at 5:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, "at the Commander in Chief's direction," according to a statement from U.S. Central Command posted on X. The statement said the mission would continue to "further degrade Iran's ability to threaten civilian mariners…
Trump Warns Iran Over Strait Attacks
President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that the United States will strike an Iranian bridge or power plant each time Iran fires on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Washington Post. Trump said on social media that any Iranian missile, rocket, drone, or other weapon fired at…
Can Iran Be Defeated Without a Ground War?
The United States can almost certainly destroy more of Iran's military than Iran can destroy America's. That, however, does not answer the question now confronting Washington: can overwhelming military superiority produce political victory without putting American troops inside Iran?After eleven consecutive nights of strikes, U.S. forces have demonstrated that they…
US Iran War Bill Hits $37.5 Billion
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that the war against Iran has cost the United States approximately $37.5 billion, up from an estimate of roughly $29 billion in mid-May.The revised figure reflects payroll, operations, maintenance, and other anticipated costs through the end of the fiscal…
Trump’s Iran War Risks Becoming a Quagmire
The Trump administration is drifting back toward its original goal of Iranian regime change after months of diplomacy failed to end the war, Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman argued, warning that President Donald Trump's foreign policy legacy is likely to be defined by a conflict for which…
