Iran has threatened to block new trade routes in the region, as the United States launched a new wave of attacks against military targets. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until the United States ends its “acts of aggression” and said other regional oil and gas export channels could also
The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in global telecommunications infrastructure to locate US military personnel in the run-up to the Iran war, as well as in the early days of the conflict, according to the Financial Times. The Iranian government leveraged Signaling System 7, or SS7, a set of protocols for 2G and 3G networks
Now Trump and the Iranians find themselves in a familiar situation. The latter are once again facing US military attacks throughout their territory, highlighting their inability to defend their territorial sovereignty. With the blockade reimposed, their oil revenues – a lifeline for the Iranian regime – are once again cut off. Meanwhile, Trump again faces
The United States and Iran have been trading waves of attacks, as a dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to derail efforts to end their war. BBC correspondent Barbara Plett Usher, reporting from Jerusalem, examines the latest tensions over the key international shipping channel. Over the weekend, Iran announced that the strait
Last night, far from the din of this escalation, its parliament quietly introduced a new bill to manage the strait called the Strategic Action for the Security and Sustainable Progress of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. That news was published in X by Ebrahim Azizi, head of the assembly’s national security commission,
President Donald Trump has reversed his threat to impose a 20% tariff on all cargo transportation through the Strait of Hormuz, as the United States fights to break Iran’s control over the waterway. He said the toll would be replaced by trade and investment deals with Gulf states, just hours before the United States resumes