#antony-blinken

#antony-blinken

The Prime Minister intervened diplomatically after 21 hours of negotiations in Pakistan ended without an agreement on Iran's nuclear program, raising fears of renewed confrontation between the United States and Iran in one of the world's most strategically sensitive maritime corridors.

The Iranian choke hold on the Strait of Hormuz evidently had a lot to do with it. By cutting off roughly one-fifth of the world's oil supply over the past five weeks, Iran's blockade of that narrow waterway caused an energy crisis and fears of a global recession that the White House could not abide for long.

Dozens of Russian military personnel have been trained in Iran to use the Fath-360 close-range ballistic missile system, which has a maximum range of 75 miles. Russia has now received shipments of these ballistic missiles and will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine against Ukrainians. He says that means Russia can use more of its own long-range missiles for targets further from the front line. It adds to their capacity, and it fuels the war.