#MiddleEast

President Trump met with top advisers in the Situation Room on Friday to discuss the latest proposal with the Iranian regime. The Iranians are still not budging on the president's red lines.…

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi discusses the origins of racial forms of Iranian nationalism by revisiting the work of Fath’ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals.…

The Strait of Hormuz situation has been hard to follow without paid maritime data. I built a free editorial dashboard that synthesizes open sources daily and shows the current shipping status with source citations.…

Egypt deployed fighter jets to UAE soil yesterday. Iran formally condemned it as "foreign forces presence." Three weeks ago Sisi said "what affects UAE affects Egypt." That wasn't solidarity. It was a declaration of alliance in everything but name.…

Wars of today are both physical and digital. The Alawite Massacres of March 2025 were no exception. Syrian society is more divided than ever, and our latest analysis using LLM Knowledge Graphs shows just exactly that.…

Three facts that don't get told together: 1968: Israel and Iran secretly built a pipeline — Eilat to Ashkelon, Red Sea to Mediterranean. Shell companies in Liechtenstein concealed it. Iranian oil through Israeli territory for over a decade.…

Every US-Iran negotiation since 1979 follows the same pattern: talks with reformists or technocrats, provisional agreement on economic terms, collapse when it reaches the security apparatus. Trump's announcement today will hit the same structural wall.…

The sequencing matters more than the headlines. Hormuz reopens first, uranium transfer comes later meaning Iran gets the sanctions relief trajectory before it gives up enriched material.…

Ive read the brief introduction into iraq and i want to know more! ive always been passionate about wars in the middle east. does anyone have any book recommendations?…

Potato futures have surged more than 700% as disruptions to energy and fertilizer trade through the Hormuz Strait fuel food inflation worldwide

Credit investors enticed by high yields are buying up corporate bonds, shrugging off the lingering Middle East conflict and focusing instead on robust results from blue-chip businesses.

Israeli settlement expansion and military operations are forcing more Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank, residents and activists have told RT

The Bank of Korea’s newest board member highlighted mounting inflation and financial-stability risks tied to the Middle East conflict, housing prices and capital flows in his inaugural remarks Friday, reinforcing expectations the central bank is moving…

Talks aimed at ending the conflict have stalled, with Iran refusing to end its nuclear program or relinquish its stockpile of enriched uranium.

From Japantimes RSS Feed: Clean energy seen as ‘structurally immune’ to Hormuz-style shock

India condemned an attack on the Indian-flagged cargo vessel Haji Ali off Oman’s coast, saying all Indian crew were rescued by Omani authorities.

Chinese President Xi Jinping opposes efforts to charge a toll to navigate the Strait of Hormuz and is interested in purchasing more US oil to reduce its dependence on the waterway in the future, according to a White House official.

Sapporo Holdings Ltd. suspended exports of its Pokka brand of beverages to the Middle East as escalating tensions involving Iran heighten concerns about demand.

The strikes are part of a broader pattern of military responses around the Persian Gulf that stayed mostly hidden during a conflict that began with U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.

Air New Zealand expects a substantial full-year loss as the Middle East conflict stokes jet-fuel costs, forcing it to cut costs and reduce services.