Tag: Strait of Hormuz
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The Petroline Comes Into Its Own — And Israel’s Quiet Bid to Join It
When I wrote about the Strait of Hormuz last month, the question was academic: how much longer could Saudi Arabia really tolerate the vulnerability of routing nearly all its oil through a choke point that Iran had shown every intention of closing? The answer, it turns out, is: not much longer. And the response is…
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Iran Has Already Lost This War — and Most People Haven’t Noticed Why
The world is watching the missiles, the blockades, and the ceasefire negotiations. But the real story is playing out in pipelines, not politics. Iran played its strongest card — the Strait of Hormuz — and the result is a world that is permanently building around it. This is the third in a series of pieces…
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The Islamabad Collapse: Why Iran Was Never Going to Accept — and Why the Hawkish Case Just Got Stronger
Twenty-one hours of face-to-face talks in Pakistan. The highest-level US-Iran engagement since 1979. And the negotiations collapsed on the nuclear question — exactly as the structural logic of this war suggested they would.