Strait of Hormuz

US and Iran Stuck on Negotiation Ground Zero

July 29, 2019 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Economic Blockade, Featured, Hybrid Warfare, Iran, Political Analysis, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Pepe Escobar, published on Consortium News, July 25, 2019 All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes when we have the President of the United States (POTUS) glibly announcing he could launch a nuclear first strike to end the war in Afghanistan and wipe it “off the face of the earth” in one week. But he’d rather not,[…]

Iran – Seizure of a British Tanker – more than Tit for Tat

July 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Iran

by Peter Koenig, published on CounterCurrents, July 25, 2019 The British-flagged tanker “Steno Impero”, heading for Saudi Arabia, was seized on Friday, 19 July 2019, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the Strait of Hormuz, after it rammed an Iranian fishing boat, whose distress call it ignored. The tanker was taken to an Iranian port, because it was[…]

WWP Editorial: No war on Iran!

June 23, 2019 UNAC Editor False Flags, Hybrid Warfare, Iran

Published on Workers World, June 15, 2019, from the Editor The U.S. government is charging that on June 13 Iran attacked two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz — the Norwegian-owned MT Front Altair and the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous. The threat of yet another U.S. military aggression in an area already devastated by decades of war is very real.[…]