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13.08.26 - 09:30
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US Embassies Across Mideast Are Permanently Reassigning Personnel (ZeroHedge)
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US Embassies Across Mideast Are Permanently Reassigning Personnel
It is not just America's military bases in the Middle East which have been greatly reduced in terms of personnel or in some cases completely abandoned altogether due to the Iran war, but US Embassies in the region have also suffered forced downgrades of staff.
Iran's retaliation on US locations and assets across the region was much bigger and more effective than US planners apparently expected, and this could have lasting impact on how US military and diplomatic deployments operate in the region.
In some cases, such as the US Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone, diplomatic compounds have been directly targeted by Iranian fire or that their proxies. And now, "The State Department is asking US embassies in the Middle East to create plans to continue operating with a small number of staff on the ground, sources told CNN, as the war with Iran shows no signs of resolution."
US Embassy in Amman, Jordan. via Xinhua
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13.08.26 - 08:12
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Goh: Long Mideast Conflict Hit Crude Product Prices (Bloomberg)
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Oil took a breather after a six-day gain, as traders await signs of progress on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and the resumption of pre-war flows of oil and gas. The price reprieve comes as the International Energy Agency says the global oil market faces a shortfall of 1.8 million barrels a day this quarter, double an earlier projection. June Goh, Senior Oil Market Analyst at Sparta Commodities spoke to Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar on the movements in the oil market. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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12.08.26 - 23:30
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Tanker Data Contradicts US Claim That Middle East Oil Flows Have Normalized (ZeroHedge)
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Tanker Data Contradicts US Claim That Middle East Oil Flows Have Normalized
By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com
Oil flows from the Middle East have normalized, with Sunday traffic alone above pre-conflict averages, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said on Tuesday in a claim that appears not to be backed by ship-tracking data.
On Tuesday, Secretary Wright posted on X that “Thanks to the coordinated efforts of the U.S. military and our gulf allies, the seven-day average for oil leaving the Strait of Hormuz is currently up to almost 9 million barrels per day.”
Thanks to the coordinated efforts of the U.S. military and our gulf allies, the seven-day average for oil leaving the Strait of Hormuz is currently up to almost 9 million barrels per day.
When combined with the additional 5-7 million barrels per day leaving the region via newly…
— Secretary Chris Wright (@SecretaryWright) August 11, 2026
He went on to add that “When combined with the additional 5-7 million barrels per day lea...
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