Dollars and Sense
The mechanism is access to the dollar: foreign banks, shippers and traders must choose between Iranian business and the far larger American system. Enforcement...
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Dollars and Sense
Tehran insists every shipowner needs its approval to enter the strait. It has not moved against any vessel on the list. Meanwhile the Houthis...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
He argued Washington turned to economic pressure out of disappointment with the war, and that the aim is to break popular unity and put...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The administration has favored economic pressure since April, and the Treasury Secretary unveils the next package this week. Pence argues that route has run...
Dollars and Sense
That discount is the reason ships keep sailing. Chinese state carriers have stayed out since late July and take their cargoes by ship-to-ship transfer...
Dollars and Sense
The rial has hit a record low against the dollar and the IMF sees inflation nearing seventy percent. The Associated Press notes the pressure...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Seoul draws a distinction worth noting: shortening Ulchi Freedom Shield was the president's political choice, but canceling this one was capacity. Marines have moved...
Dollars and Sense
Jack Buckby examines Iran's badly timed discovery: a Fars province field worth fifteen years of a South Pars phase, announced while war-damaged plants await...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Jack Buckby examines the job Trump has handed Scott Bessent: enforcing history's toughest sanctions against an Iran built to survive them, with China refusing...