A president who once warned against touching Iran’s oil now wants all of it. President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the United States could soon seize Iran’s strategic Kharg Island oil hub, the latest escalation in a conflict that has slid, week by week, into open warfare between Washington and Tehran. “The United States will
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A diplomatic breakthrough, cautious and unfinished, may be taking shape between Washington and Tehran. American and Iranian negotiators have agreed in principle to a sixty-day memorandum of understanding — a framework that
In every confrontation between nations, there is a moment when words stop working. The radio crackles. A warning is issued. Then another. Then another. And at some point, when the ship on
At ten o’clock this morning, Eastern time, the United States Navy drew a line in the water. A blockade of Iranian ports and a partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz went
The guns have gone quiet. Now comes the harder part. President Trump told The New York Post that peace talks with Iran are expected to take place in Pakistan “very soon” —
