President Trump changed course Tuesday. He dropped his plan for a 20% toll on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. In its place, he wants Gulf states to invest directly in America. He explained the shift on Truth Social. The talks with Middle East leaders, he wrote, had been “highly productive.” The investments to
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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,
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
