Strait of Hormuz
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The Ceasefire Is Already Dead, It Just Has Not Fallen Over Yet
Trump called Iran's peace proposal 'garbage,' Hormuz shipping is at 5% of normal, and both sides are now managing a controlled freeze rather than moving toward resolution.
Iran Rejects U.S. Peace Terms as 'Surrender.' The Strait Stays Closed.
Tehran's counterproposal demands war reparations and full Hormuz sovereignty. Trump called it totally unacceptable. Drones are still flying.
The Ceasefire That Keeps Shooting
US and Iran are exchanging fire in the Strait of Hormuz while both sides insist a ceasefire is still in effect. One of them is lying, or neither knows what a ceasefire means.
The Ceasefire That Isn't
US and Iran exchange fire in the Strait of Hormuz while both sides insist the war is over.
Trump Threatens More Bombs While Claiming Peace Progress on Iran
Sixty-eight days into a US war with Iran, both sides are inching toward a one-page memorandum while the president simultaneously threatens to escalate.
Trump Goes to Beijing. China Holds the Iran Card.
The first US presidential visit to China in eight years arrives after two months of war in Iran, with Beijing in a position it has rarely occupied: indispensable to both sides.
Project Freedom Cracks the Ceasefire
The US forced ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by attacking the UAE. A three-week truce is unraveling in real time.
Iran's 14-Point Proposal and the War That Neither Side Can End
Trump says he can't imagine it being acceptable. Iran says the nuclear question can wait. Neither is telling the truth about what they actually need.
Pay Iran or Face US Sanctions. Shipping Companies Must Choose.
The US has threatened to sanction any shipping firm that pays Iran's Strait of Hormuz transit tolls, while simultaneously describing its own seizure of Iranian cargo as 'very profitable.' The global maritime economy now has no legal path through the Strait.
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Trade the Blockade, Keep the Bomb
Tehran is offering to reopen the world's most important oil chokepoint in exchange for Washington dropping its nuclear demands. Trump is saying no. Both sides are right to distrust the other.
Oil Hits $119 After Trump Says the Blockade Is 'More Effective Than the Bombing'
The White House is preparing to extend its naval blockade of Iran indefinitely. Iran says it can hold out. Someone is wrong, and the world's energy markets are pricing both possibilities simultaneously.
The UAE Walks Out of OPEC
The second-most important oil producer in OPEC just quit. The Iran war made it possible. The math made it inevitable.
After Islamabad: Iran Goes to Moscow Because Washington Stopped Showing Up
Trump canceled the Islamabad talks. Iran's foreign minister flew to St. Petersburg. Putin pledged strategic partnership. The ceasefire holds in name only. And Russia just inserted itself as a necessary intermediary in a war it didn't start.
The Ceasefire That Isn't
Both sides are calling it peace while actively fighting. The real question is who blinks first before the next deadline.
The Iran Ceasefire That Neither Side Wants to Own
Trump extended the truce indefinitely but kept the blockade. Iran refused to send negotiators. Both sides are now waiting for the other to blink first.
Iran Closes Hormuz Again. The Ceasefire Was Never a Ceasefire.
Tehran and Washington are each enforcing their version of the truce while calling the other side's actions a violation.
The Deal That Depends on Beijing Keeping Its Word
Trump says China agreed not to arm Iran. That claim is doing enormous diplomatic work for a ceasefire that does not yet exist.
The Siege That Talks Are Supposed to End
The US blockade of Iranian ports is working militarily and collapsing diplomatically at the same time.
The Hormuz Blockade Is Not About Iran. It's About What China Will Agree to Before Trump Arrives in Beijing.
The US naval embargo that's halting oil tankers in the world's most critical shipping lane has a secondary audience of one: Xi Jinping, who needs that oil and who Trump is visiting in six weeks.
No Deal in Islamabad
21 hours of direct talks between the US and Iran collapsed over nuclear weapons and the Strait of Hormuz. The ceasefire is now strain-tested with no replacement framework.
The Islamabad Gamble
Vance flew to Pakistan to negotiate a peace with Iran that neither side can fully afford to want.
China's Invisible Hand in the Iran Ceasefire
Beijing brokered peace through Pakistan, kept its fingerprints off the deal, and is now heading into the Trump summit holding the winning hand.
The Ceasefire Happened. The Ships Are Not Coming Back.
Maersk, Norwegian shipowners, and every major tanker operator say the ceasefire is not enough to resume Strait of Hormuz transits. The gap between 'political agreement' and 'safe passage' is where the energy crisis lives.
The Ceasefire Has Three Versions. None of Them Cover Lebanon.
VP Vance admitted there are three conflicting drafts of the Iran truce circulating simultaneously. That isn't a diplomatic misunderstanding. It is the deal.
NATO Survived the Cold War. Whether It Survives Trump Depends on Who Blinks First.
Trump called NATO a 'paper tiger' and threatened withdrawal after European allies refused to join Operation Epic Fury. The alliance is now more fractured than at any point since 1966.
The Iran Ceasefire: Trump's Victory Lap Is a Cover Story
The deal was built on Iran's 10-point plan. Calling that a win requires ignoring what the plan says.
China and Russia Kill the Hormuz Lifeline
Beijing and Moscow didn't veto a resolution protecting shipping. they vetoed the idea that the UN Security Council has any authority over a war they're quietly backing.