Tag: Sanctions

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington will announce new measures next week combining intensified financial pressure with an open-ended naval blockade aimed at further isolating Iran.

The U.K. Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation into a reported confrontation involving the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich, which allegedly fired warning shots at a British yacht navigating the English Channel.

Throughout the history of modern crises, the standoff revolving around Iran differs significantly from the rest, which brings the crucial question of what exactly the U.S. endgame is.

Iran’s oil exports have effectively collapsed under the CENTCOM naval cordon, turning a ceasefire into a slow economic strangulation campaign that may threaten the regime more than open war ever did. Cut off from its main source of revenue and stripped of its usual wartime rally narrative, Tehran is now confronting one of the most dangerous moments in its modern history.

The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow channel of water between Iran and Oman, just 21 nautical miles

In the early hours of February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched the largest combined air

Iran’s revolutionary government didn’t just defy the West for four decades. It used the West’s own rulebook against

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operates one of the world’s largest state-backed drug trafficking enterprises, generating billions of

The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow chokepoint linking the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and carrying