‘Tethered to a galaxy far, far away’: former diplomats doubt Trump’s Iran talks can deliver in time
Sometime on Tuesday, two New York real estate developers will walk into a hotel in Islamabad to try to end ...
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The US is ready to seize Iran-linked ships with boarding parties, as Marines practice maritime raids
Conditions for the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran deteriorated on Saturday as the Strait of Hormuz became more ...
Iran’s Hormuz whiplash highlights divided regime. ‘The fight between different factions has started’
Iran’s military declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again on Saturday after a head-spinning 24 hours of mixed messages from ...
Something is different about Trump’s $1 trillion war on Iran and its stress on the national debt, Harvard Kennedy scholar says
German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant argued in his 1795 essay Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, that nations should conduct themselves ...
Trump says the Iran war is ‘very close to over’—despite no deal, a live blockade, and threats mounting
President Donald Trump told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo Wednesday that the U.S.-Iran war is “very close to being over”—even as ...
Wall Street is the biggest winner of the Iran war—and the S&P 500 just turned positive for the year
Markets opened down nearly 1% across the indexes on Monday, but news-aggregating accounts online and on social media picked up ...
Iran’s crumbling economy is the regime’s greatest weakness as authorities worry about making payroll
The Iranian economy was already in shambles before the U.S. and Israel launched their war on the Islamic republic, and ...
The world’s 500 richest people made more than a quarter trillion yesterday
Wall Street traders saw a huge surge yesterday, and the world’s wealthiest billionaires had their best day in nearly a ...
Only five ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, far below Iran’s pledge as negotiations begin
Only five ships moved through the Strait of Hormuz on April 9 during the ceasefire agreement between Iran and the ...
Within a day, the Iran-U.S. ceasefire began breaking down. Markets shrugged
Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Wednesday that three clauses of the 10-point ceasefire framework with the United States ...
$1.5 trillion relief rally erupts on Wall Street after Trump hits pause on Iran strikes
Five weeks of held breath just exhaled from the U.S. stock market this morning, and it was worth about $1.5 ...
Trump’s warning to Iran: ‘A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again’
President Donald Trump posted a dire warning on Truth Social Tuesday morning that Iran—one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, ...
Why Iran’s ‘Selective’ Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Matters
“It’s part of the bargain between Beijing and Tehran: one can offer diplomatic protection and support while the other ensures ...
Markets rally hard on Iran’s promise to play nice at Hormuz
Markets breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after Iran’s state news agency reported the country is drafting a protocol ...
Bill Ackman told spooked investors to get over the Iran war and buy Fannie and Freddie. Stocks surged 40% the next day
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government sponsored businesses designed to prop up mortgages, ripped on Monday after billionaire ...
The big Stock market correction that Trump can’t talk his way out of is official
The Iran war increasingly looks like the one instance where physical reality has outrun his ability to control the narrative. ...
Putin is the real winner in Trump’s Iran war as it puts Russian oil back on the map
The war in Iran is spiking global oil prices, and Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t be happier. The war has ...
Iran war is making the world a little less sweet as oil soars at the worst possible time for sugar
Sugar and gasoline don’t have a lot in common, unless you’re in a sugarcane mill in Brazil, in which case ...
Tariffs squeezed small businesses but the Iran war is now pushing them to the brink
Three weeks into the Iran war, small businesses are starting to feel the pressure of the conflict, and experts say ...
The U.S. Mint dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country?
The U.S. Mint unveiled new designs for the country’s 250th anniversary and it left out one key detail: the olive ...
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