After weeks of uneasy quiet, American missiles again lit up Iran’s southern coast on September 1. The targets were Revolutionary Guard air defences, radars, mine-laying craft and communications nodes clustered near the Strait of Hormuz. Washington framed the action as…
The United States and Iran have signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding to bring an immediate end to their recent military conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping.President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed the…
In the early weeks of what has become the Middle East’s most destructive conflict in a generation, Qatar quietly reached out to its Iranian neighbours. According to security officials cited by The Washington Post, Doha proposed a discreet understanding: Iran…
Three Indian seafarers lost their lives when US forces struck the Palau-flagged tanker MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman on 10 June, an incident that has thrust India’s large maritime workforce into the volatile centre of US-Iran tensions and…
As President Donald Trump dismisses the latest Iranian peace overtures and muses publicly about the option to “blast the hell out of them and finish them forever,” Washington finds itself at a perilous crossroads in the two-month-old conflict with Iran.…
History will record that the great dealmaker came to Islamabad, saw, and somehow still managed to tweet about it as a tremendous success. Donald Trump’s much-vaunted diplomatic foray into brokering peace between America and Iran has ended, as so many…
