Ships attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz will need secret codes and to pay up to $2 million in Chinese yuan or cryptocurrencies to avoid being attacked by Iran, according to a new report. After Iran’s lawmakers approved a bill to impose fees on the safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz this…
Donald Trump has announced that Iran‘s new leadership is requesting a ceasefire, but warned any truce is contingent on the Strait of Hormuz reopening. The President claimed that the ‘new regime president’ was ‘much less radicalized and far more intelligent that his predecessors’, without revealing with whom the US was negotiating, in a post on…
The Kremlin on Monday welcomed the arrival of a Russian-flagged oil tanker to Cuba, saying energy supplies to the fuel-starved island had been discussed with the U.S. ahead of its delivery. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow considered it its duty to help Cuba, according to Russian state news outlet RIA Novosti. He added that…
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson. We’re concluding the third week of the Israeli-United States effort to emasculate Iran, and we’re, sort of, in a standoff period. I think people have compared Iran to the black knight in the old Monty Python movie. The more that he loses a leg and arm, the more he…
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is pushing for a return to Russian energy imports, using rising fuel prices and economic concerns to strengthen its support after recent election gains. Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has renewed its call for a return to Russian energy supplies, capitalising on rising fuel prices and economic concerns…
The terrorists, the military claimed, systematically used ambulances to transfer weapons across the country, in order to launch attacks against Israel and IDF soldiers. The IDF said Monday it struck a Hezbollah cell in southern Lebanon over the weekend that was operating an ambulance while posing as paramedics. The terrorists, the military claimed, systematically used…
A senior IRGC official in Tehran told state television that children over 12 can join armed patrols and checkpoints. Tehran, Iran – Heavily armed state forces continue to control Iran’s streets, despite the United States and Israel launching more strikes and preparing for a potential ground attack, as the nearly one-month war proceeds with no…
HELSINKI, March 26 (Reuters) – Finland’s Supreme Court on Tuesday found a member of parliament guilty and fined her for calling homosexuality a “developmental disorder”, in a long-running precedent case that has turned into a political tussle over the limits of freedom of speech. The court found Paivi Rasanen, a medical doctor and MP for…
A prominent Russian milblogger issued a lengthy critique of the Russian military’s inability to achieve victory in Ukraine and called for serious force generation and defense industrial reforms. A Russian milblogger highlighted on March 25 that Russian forces suffer from numerous problems that prevent them from making frontline gains.[1] The milblogger claimed that Russian forces…
The US is working on options for a “final blow” to Iran that could see American ground troops deployed on Iranian soil, as well as a major bombing effort, Axios reports, citing two US officials and two sources with knowledge. If attempts to initiate high-level negotiations with Iran do not bear fruit and the Iranians…