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22.03.26 - 01:30
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Iran-Liveblog: ++ Trump setzt Iran Ultimatum ++ (Tagesschau)
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US-Präsident Trump gibt Iran 48 Stunden für die Öffnung der Straße von Hormus - andernfalls droht er mit der Zerstörung von Energieanlagen. Großbritannien hat Medienberichten zufolge ein atomares U-Boot ins Arabische Meer verlegt....
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22.03.26 - 00:51
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Phantom Ayatollah? Iran′s New Supreme Leader Has Never Been Seen Since Taking Office (ZeroHedge)
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Phantom Ayatollah? Iran's New Supreme Leader Has Never Been Seen Since Taking Office
Amid widespread reporting that Iran had long ago moved into a emergency wartime decentralized command among autonomously-acting units, serious questions persist as to the role of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father, longtime leader Ali Khamenei.
What's clear is that the new, younger Khamenei - who may have been wounded in the early days of US-Israeli strikes, hasn't been seen in any public way, not even on TV, throughout the war. There have not so much as been official recent images of him circulated.
AFP/Getty Images
This has raised obvious questions on the degree to which the Ayatollah is actually running the country and the wartime response, also after national security official Ali Larijani was killed. Larijani had clearly been the interim public face of the Islamic Republic, before his death less than a mere week ago (reportedly on March 17).
In the meantime The Wall Street...
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21.03.26 - 22:36
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Iran Ready To Let Japanese Ships Use Hormuz As Chinese, Indian Tankers Already Allowed Passage (ZeroHedge)
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Iran Ready To Let Japanese Ships Use Hormuz As Chinese, Indian Tankers Already Allowed Passage
While Iran's decision to close the Straits of Hormuz in response to the US-Israeli bombing campaign was understandable, after all it's the biggest point of leverage the IRGC-controlled nation has left (it is certainly more understandable than bombing all of its Gulf neighbors in the process pushing them from being on the fence to being staunchly anti-Iran), there was always a bit of a glitch in Tehran's calculus: as we showed the day the war broke out, the biggest clients of Gulf exporting nations by far are China, India, Korea and Japan, namely Asian countries which - with the exception of Japan - are hardly allies of the US. Therefore, the countries that would be hit the hardest were those Pacific rim nations that would buy millions of barrels of oil daily from Gulf countries before the war, and now find that oil indefinitely blocked behind the Strait.
While prices are fungible, the biggest lose...
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