Tag: Guardian War

📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Tehran has shown that its grip over the strait of Hormuz is its most potent deterrent – arguably more consequential than its now defunct nuclear programme Fawaz Gerges is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics Donald Trump’s decision to go to war against Iran…

📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Jim Taiclet spoke in earnings call as company expands contracts with the US government amid the Iran war Lockheed Martin’s CEO has called the Trump administration a “golden opportunity” for the company as it expands its contracting work for the federal government amid the conflict in the Middle…

📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran ⚔️ President says forces can ‘shoot and kill’ any boat laying mines and claims the US has ‘total control’ of the strait ‘Impossible’ to reopen strait of Hormuz amid ‘flagrant’ ceasefire breaches, Iran says The Pentagon abruptly announced that the secretary of the US navy, John Phelan, would be…

📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Committee to Protect Journalists says Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was found innocent after 52 days in detention Middle East crisis – live updates A Kuwaiti-American journalist, who had been detained in Kuwait, has been acquitted, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who has previously worked for…

📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Lebanese PM calls attack a ‘war crime’ as Amal Khalil’s death prompts fresh claims over targeting of media workers Middle East crisis – live updates Israel’s killing of a prominent Lebanese journalist in a double-tap strike has been greeted with international outrage as Lebanon’s prime minister described the…