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Iran’s parliament voted last Sunday to close the Strait of Hormuz, a critical choke point for oil and natural gas located ...

The Strait of Hormuz remains one of the most important energy corridors in the world. It is the only sea route from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, it serves as the primary maritime route for oil ...

Iran will remain a world threat because the U.S. and Israel did not finish the job in the fashion dictated in the Torah. But ...

Within hours of the strike on Iran, Trump claimed that U.S. forces had “completely and fully obliterated” Iran’s nuclear ...

The world might have just witnessed the shortest global war on record – 12 days, from June 13, 2025 to June 25, 2025. World War I lasted four years, 1914-1918. World War II lasted six years, 1939 to ...

ON June 21, the United States announced that it had launched airstrikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran. This marks the first time the US has officially intervened militarily in this round of the ...