Nicholas Hopton, Distinguished Fellow in international security at the Royal United Services Institute think tank in London and former UK ambassador to Iran The latest spike in military action is not going to produce Iran’s capitulation – it is just the latest twist. Economic pressure is also unlikely to work because China, Russia and many
Drivers in the US are paying more than ever for diesel at the pump as the US-Israel war with Iran continues to hit Americans’ wallets. In the US, diesel is mostly used by commercial vehicles, such as trucks, trains, boats, buses, farming vehicles and construction vehicles. The average price for one gallon of diesel in
Iranian state media also reported on Sunday that the country’s Navy had attacked an American remote-controlled vessel that was trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz. The US military has denied the claim. “The report came from Iranian state media and it’s a total lie,” said Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for Centcom, according to
Donald Trump has called for interest rates to be cut later this month, claiming higher rates put the US at a “very unfair disadvantage”. The president’s remarks came as stronger-than-expected jobs figures in the US added to growing expectations that rates could be increased, with inflation still running high and American households feeling the pinch
Reddington first made national headlines in 1989, when he won freedom for Therese Rogers, a woman accused of killing her boyfriend after stabbing his eyes out, the Cape Cod Times reported. (She did so with a butcher’s knife, the court would learn, while the boyfriend slept.) During the case, Reddington threw a pair of ninja
WASHINGTON — In the earliest days of this election cycle, the U.S. wasn’t at war with Iran. The East Wing of the White House was still standing and the Kennedy Center wasn’t threatened with demolition. Artificial intelligence data centers weren’t bipartisan shorthand for the tech sector’s excess. Democratic socialists were largely confined to the outer