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Items by Alice Johnson
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Washington says it wants a deal. Its actions point to a ground war
Americans have heard this script before. A president says he wants a deal, insists he does not want a wider war, and then quietly builds the military architecture for one anyway. That is where the United States now stands in its war with Iran. Even as Donald Trump talks about…
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Hormuz: The world’s energy fuse
Off the coast of Fujairah, the scene is not dramatic so much as unsettlingly ordinary: tankers waiting, crews watching, port agents reworking schedules that were meant to be routine. The Strait of Hormuz does not need to be fully “closed” to become a global problem. It only needs to feel…
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Freedom does not arrive on a cruise missile
When Reza Pahlavi spoke on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference this week, he did not simply criticise the Islamic Republic. He urged United States officials to embrace something far more consequential: “military intervention” against Iran, framed as a humanitarian shortcut. In an interview with Reuters, he argued that…
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When urgency becomes policy: How the path to war against Iran is being engineered
The most dangerous shift in the current standoff with Iran is not the movement of ships or the volume of threats. It is the way time itself is being weaponised. Decisions that once belonged to political debate are now framed as races against the clock, where hesitation is treated as…