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Trump postpones Iran escalation following Gulf diplomatic pressure: Reports. #AsiaAmericas #GCC #InternationalOrganisations #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #News #SaudiArabia #UAE #US
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Oman says oil spill from stricken tanker has reached its coast | Environment News
Up to 40km of coastline affected by oil pollution, Omani Environment Authority says. Published On 13 Aug 202613…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #Economy #Energy #MiddleEast #OilandGas #oman #Science
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Iran has reorganized its military to be more aggressive abroad as talks on ending the war with the U.S. remain mired in stalemate, a sign that Tehran is preparing for a protracted era of regional conflict. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/13/world/politics/iran-military-stance-us-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #straitofhormuz #oil #persiangulf
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Iran has reorganized its military to be more aggressive abroad as talks on ending the war with the U.S. remain mired in stalemate, a sign that Tehran is preparing for a protracted era of regional conflict. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/13/world/politics/iran-military-stance-us-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #straitofhormuz #oil #persiangulf
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A threat that Air Force One could be targeted prompted the U.S. Secret Service to secretly move U.S. President Donald Trump onto an unmarked government jet during a trip to Turkey last month, a source has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/13/world/missile-threat-aircraft-switch-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #airforceone #turkey
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A threat that Air Force One could be targeted prompted the U.S. Secret Service to secretly move U.S. President Donald Trump onto an unmarked government jet during a trip to Turkey last month, a source has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/13/world/missile-threat-aircraft-switch-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #airforceone #turkey
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Iran has rejected Donald Trump’s claim of ‘total control’ over the Strait of Hormuz, saying the key waterway will remain blocked until its conditions are met. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/iran-rejects-trump-total-control-strait-of-hormuz-k4bowzx5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Iran #DonaldTrump #StraitOfHormuz #USIran #MiddleEast
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US strikes in Yemen killed 153 civilians in 2025, says Pentagon review | Drone Strikes News
The unclassified Pentagon review sheds new light on civilian harm from the US campaign against Yemen’s Houthis. Published…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #DroneStrikes #Houthis #HumanRights #Humanitariancrises #iran #MiddleEast #Military #UnitedStatesofAmerica #Yemen
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…Some #US #intelligence officials saw Israel’s sharing of the warning about threats to #Trump’s life as designed less to inform than to influence the president’s decision-making & US #policy in the region, a current & a former US official said.
#Israel views #Iran as by far its most urgent near-term threat.#TrumpsWar #IranWar #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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…Some #US #intelligence officials saw Israel’s sharing of the warning about threats to #Trump’s life as designed less to inform than to influence the president’s decision-making & US #policy in the region, a current & a former US official said.
#Israel views #Iran as by far its most urgent near-term threat.#TrumpsWar #IranWar #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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As the Pentagon fails to force Iranian capitulation, the Trump administration returns to trying severe economic pressure. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/13/world/politics/trump-economic-squeeze-iran/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #straitofhormuz #oil #persiangulf
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As the Pentagon fails to force Iranian capitulation, the Trump administration returns to trying severe economic pressure. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/13/world/politics/trump-economic-squeeze-iran/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #straitofhormuz #oil #persiangulf
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Iran could prolong war to outlast Trump, IRGC adviser says
The six decrees named Ali Abdollahi chief of staff of the armed forces, with Kioumars Heydari as his…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Iran #IranandChina #IranCovid #Iraneconomy #Irangovernment #Iranmedia.IranandtheUnitedStates #IranNews #Irannuclear #Iranpolitics #Iran-US #MiddleEast #USsanctions
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Iran loses ground in oil market as neighbors rebound
In the study of migration and bilingualism, Persian is, for many children of Iranian immigrants, a heritage language:…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Iran #IranandChina #IranCovid #Iraneconomy #Irangovernment #Iranmedia.IranandtheUnitedStates #IranNews #Irannuclear #Iranpolitics #Iran-US #MiddleEast #USsanctions
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Trump claims US control of Strait of Hormuz, praises blockade, taunts Iran’s military. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/praise-be-to-allah-trump-hails-us-wall-of-steel-blockade-claims-iran-has-no-answer-ek46qhm7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DonaldTrump #StraitOfHormuz #Iran #USIran #MiddleEast
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The absence from public life of Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has left a vacuum in which disputes between political factions — a mainstay of Iranian life — have become more pronounced and seeped into the open. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/12/world/politics/khamenei-absence-iranian-factions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #straitofhormuz #oil #persiangulf #mojtabakhamenei
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The absence from public life of Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has left a vacuum in which disputes between political factions — a mainstay of Iranian life — have become more pronounced and seeped into the open. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/12/world/politics/khamenei-absence-iranian-factions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #straitofhormuz #oil #persiangulf #mojtabakhamenei
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Rising global conflicts, shifting power balances and interconnected crises resemble conditions that historically preceded world wars, creating significant danger despite the absence of direct great‑power confrontation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/12/world/coming-world-war-iii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #russia #northkorea #iran #us #ukraine #middleeast #nato #taiwan #indopacific #defense
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Rising global conflicts, shifting power balances and interconnected crises resemble conditions that historically preceded world wars, creating significant danger despite the absence of direct great‑power confrontation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/12/world/coming-world-war-iii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #russia #northkorea #iran #us #ukraine #middleeast #nato #taiwan #indopacific #defense
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Top Iranian commander visited Iraq to discuss disarmament plan: Source | Al Jazeera News
Esmail Qaani, head of the IRGC’s Quds Force, held meetings over the Iraqi government’s plan to disarm armed…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AlJazeera #breakingnews #Iran #Iraq #MiddleEast #US-IsraelwaronIran
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Iran refutes Trump’s claim to ‘control’ Hormuz: What’s the latest in talks? | US-Israel war on Iran News
Iran has refuted President Donald Trump’s claim that Washington has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz, saying…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #armedgroups #breakingnews #Conflict #Explainer #Houthis #Internationaltrade #Iran #IslamicRevolutionaryGuardCorps #MiddleEast #Military #Shipping #UnitedStates #US&Canada #US-IsraelwaronIran #Yemen
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The Awful Arithmetic Of Our Wars
“DEFENSE ONE” By Peter W. Singer
“The math of current battlefields remains literally orders of magnitude beyond what our budget plans to spend, our industry plans to build, our acquisitions system is able to contract, and thus what our military will deploy.”
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“At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of blood and treasure; each can, and must, ultimately be counted and measured. It has been the same for every conflict before and after.
Yet this arithmetic is constantly changing, and never faster than right now. If the United States cannot update its calculations to properly reflect our new era, our failure will not just cost us blood and treasure, but will drive us toward defeat.
Cost imposition has long been a tenet of U.S. strategy. During the Cold War, the U.S. launched expensive programs such as stealth and Star Wars not just for their tactical value, but to send a strategic signal to the Kremlin: neither your economy nor your war machine can keep up. Gorbachev, persuaded, gave up the decades-long competition with the U.S.
The very same concept of cost imposition was also elemental to the most celebrated operations of the past year. In Operation Spider’s Web, Ukraine used inexpensive drones, reportedly costing less than $500 each, to damage strategic bombers worth many millions of dollars, degrading Russia’s long-range strike capabilities for years to come. Similarly, in Operation Rising Lion, cheap Israeli drones took out Iranian surface-to-air missiles and radars, paving the way for the destruction of command and nuclear facilities worth tens of billions of dollars. In each, the tactical became the strategic through new operational concepts that leveraged the new math of new technologies.
Now contrast this with our own approaches, which overwhelmingly rely on sophisticated but costly overmatch.
The most lauded U.S. operation of 2025 was Operation Midnight Hammer, our followup to Rising Lion. One estimate put its cost at $196 million, from combining B-2 bomber’s nearly $160,000 per flight hour and Tomahawk missiles’ rough price of $1.87 million apiece. (It does not count the initial purchase of the seven B-2 Bombers that cost $2.1 billion each, nor the $4.3 billion submarine that launched the missiles.)
Perhaps it was worth spending one-fifth of a billion dollars to damage Iranian nuclear facilities, but the numbers in Operation Rough Rider—the strikes against the Houthis last spring—illustrate the problem more starkly. The Pentagon spent roughly $5 billion on munitions and operating costs to stop attacks on Red Sea shipping, which simply started back up.
The same awful arithmetic haunts the current operations in the Caribbean against the Venezuela-based, government-connected Cartel de los Soles. The entity was recently designated by the Trump administration as a foreign terrorist organization, as part of its argument that US forces are engaged in an “armed conflict.” The cartel was declared by the Department of Justice to be the hub of a cocaine transport network, shipping a reported street value of between $6.25 billion and $8.75 billion in drugs (the cartel gets an unknown, but clearly lesser, percentage of that overall value in actual profit).
To battle this foe, the United States has assembled a fleet that cost at least $40 billion to buy in total. The carrier Ford alone cost $4.7 billion to develop and $12.9 billion to build. The fleet is backed by at least 83 aircraft of assorted types, including 10 F-35Bs ($109 million apiece), seven Predator drones ($33 million each), three P-8 Poseidons ($145 million per), and at least one AC-130J gunship ($165 million). To be sure, all of these assets will continue to serve long after Operation Southern Spear is wound down, but this is how we are using the investment.
But the current cost of operations and expendables hardly tells a better story. The Ford alone costs about $8 million a day to run. The F-35s and AC-130J cost about $40,000 per flight hour; the P-8s, about $30,000; the Reapers, about $3,500.
Analysis of the strike videos on the 21 boats show that U.S. forces have fired AGM-176 Griffins ($127,333 apiece in 2019), Hellfires (running about $150,000 to $220,000) and potentially GBU-39B Small Diameter Bombs ($40,000). In some cases, they are reportedly firing four munitions per strike: “twice to kill the crew and twice more to sink it.”
All this is arrayed to sink motorboats, 21 at last report. One of the boats was described by Pentagon officials as a 39-foot Flipper-type vessel with four 200-horsepower engines. New ones go for about $400,000 on Boats.com, but the old, open top motorbots in the videos are obviously well below that in cost. Their crews have been reported as making $500 per trip.
Put in comparison, the cost of the US naval fleet deployed is at least five times what the cartel makes in smuggling. The air fleet deployed costs at least another two times more. It is roughly 5,000 times the cost of the suspected drug boats that have been destroyed. Indeed, just the cost of operating the Ford off Venezuela for a single day has still not yet equaled the maximum cost the cartel paid for the boats it has lost.
In the air, the U.S. military spent roughly 66,000 times more to buy each unmanned drone in the operation than the cartel paid each man that the unmanned drones killed. The US spent between 80 to 300 times more for each bomb or missile it has used than the cartel paid each man killed by those bombs or missiles.
The math is arguably even worse when we’re on the defense.
In September, a wave of 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish airspace.. The Gerbera-type drones cost as little as $10,000—so cheap that they are often used as decoys to misdirect and overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses. NATO countered with a half-billion-dollar response force of F-35s, F-16s, AWACS radar planes, and helicopters, which shot down four of the drones with $1.6-million AMRAAM missiles.
This is a bargain compared to how challenging U.S. forces have found it to defend against Houthi forces using this same cheap tech. Our naval forces have fired a reported 120 SM-2, 80 SM-6, and 20 SM-3 missiles, costing about $2.1 million, $3.9 million, and over $9.6 million each. And this is to defend against a group operating out of the 187th-largest economy in the world, able to fire mere hundreds of drones and missiles. Our supposed pacing challenge, China, has an economy that will soon be the largest in the world and a combined national industrial and military acquisition plan to be able to fire munitions by the millions.
Even in America’s best-laid plans for future battlefields, there is a harsh reality that is too often ignored. The math of current battlefields remains literally orders of magnitude beyond what our budget plans to spend, our industry plans to build, our acquisitions system is able to contract, and thus what our military will deploy.
As a point of comparison, Ukraine is on pace to build, buy, and use over four million drones this year. The U.S. Army, meanwhile, aims to acquire 50,000 drones next year—about 1.25 percent of the Ukrainian total. In its most optimistic plans, it hopes to be able to acquire 1 million drones “within the next two to three years.”
When you spend orders of magnitude more than your foe, you are in what is known as a “losing equation.” And if we don’t change this math, we will need an update to Norm Augustine’s infamous “law” of defense acquisitions. Back in 1979, Augustine calculated that if the Pentagon couldn’t curtail the cost curve of its purchasing, by 2054 we wouldn’t be able to afford a single plane.
If we don’t master the new math of the battlefield, we won’t be able to afford to win a single battle.”
The awful arithmetic of our wars
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
P.W. Singer is Strategist at New America and the author of multiple books on technology and security, including Wired for War, Ghost Fleet, Burn-In, and LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media.
#GovernmentInefficiency #GovernmentWaste #Iran #MiddleEast #news #Pentagon #politics #technology #war -
The Awful Arithmetic Of Our Wars
“DEFENSE ONE” By Peter W. Singer
“The math of current battlefields remains literally orders of magnitude beyond what our budget plans to spend, our industry plans to build, our acquisitions system is able to contract, and thus what our military will deploy.”
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of blood and treasure; each can, and must, ultimately be counted and measured. It has been the same for every conflict before and after.
Yet this arithmetic is constantly changing, and never faster than right now. If the United States cannot update its calculations to properly reflect our new era, our failure will not just cost us blood and treasure, but will drive us toward defeat.
Cost imposition has long been a tenet of U.S. strategy. During the Cold War, the U.S. launched expensive programs such as stealth and Star Wars not just for their tactical value, but to send a strategic signal to the Kremlin: neither your economy nor your war machine can keep up. Gorbachev, persuaded, gave up the decades-long competition with the U.S.
The very same concept of cost imposition was also elemental to the most celebrated operations of the past year. In Operation Spider’s Web, Ukraine used inexpensive drones, reportedly costing less than $500 each, to damage strategic bombers worth many millions of dollars, degrading Russia’s long-range strike capabilities for years to come. Similarly, in Operation Rising Lion, cheap Israeli drones took out Iranian surface-to-air missiles and radars, paving the way for the destruction of command and nuclear facilities worth tens of billions of dollars. In each, the tactical became the strategic through new operational concepts that leveraged the new math of new technologies.
Now contrast this with our own approaches, which overwhelmingly rely on sophisticated but costly overmatch.
The most lauded U.S. operation of 2025 was Operation Midnight Hammer, our followup to Rising Lion. One estimate put its cost at $196 million, from combining B-2 bomber’s nearly $160,000 per flight hour and Tomahawk missiles’ rough price of $1.87 million apiece. (It does not count the initial purchase of the seven B-2 Bombers that cost $2.1 billion each, nor the $4.3 billion submarine that launched the missiles.)
Perhaps it was worth spending one-fifth of a billion dollars to damage Iranian nuclear facilities, but the numbers in Operation Rough Rider—the strikes against the Houthis last spring—illustrate the problem more starkly. The Pentagon spent roughly $5 billion on munitions and operating costs to stop attacks on Red Sea shipping, which simply started back up.
The same awful arithmetic haunts the current operations in the Caribbean against the Venezuela-based, government-connected Cartel de los Soles. The entity was recently designated by the Trump administration as a foreign terrorist organization, as part of its argument that US forces are engaged in an “armed conflict.” The cartel was declared by the Department of Justice to be the hub of a cocaine transport network, shipping a reported street value of between $6.25 billion and $8.75 billion in drugs (the cartel gets an unknown, but clearly lesser, percentage of that overall value in actual profit).
To battle this foe, the United States has assembled a fleet that cost at least $40 billion to buy in total. The carrier Ford alone cost $4.7 billion to develop and $12.9 billion to build. The fleet is backed by at least 83 aircraft of assorted types, including 10 F-35Bs ($109 million apiece), seven Predator drones ($33 million each), three P-8 Poseidons ($145 million per), and at least one AC-130J gunship ($165 million). To be sure, all of these assets will continue to serve long after Operation Southern Spear is wound down, but this is how we are using the investment.
But the current cost of operations and expendables hardly tells a better story. The Ford alone costs about $8 million a day to run. The F-35s and AC-130J cost about $40,000 per flight hour; the P-8s, about $30,000; the Reapers, about $3,500.
Analysis of the strike videos on the 21 boats show that U.S. forces have fired AGM-176 Griffins ($127,333 apiece in 2019), Hellfires (running about $150,000 to $220,000) and potentially GBU-39B Small Diameter Bombs ($40,000). In some cases, they are reportedly firing four munitions per strike: “twice to kill the crew and twice more to sink it.”
All this is arrayed to sink motorboats, 21 at last report. One of the boats was described by Pentagon officials as a 39-foot Flipper-type vessel with four 200-horsepower engines. New ones go for about $400,000 on Boats.com, but the old, open top motorbots in the videos are obviously well below that in cost. Their crews have been reported as making $500 per trip.
Put in comparison, the cost of the US naval fleet deployed is at least five times what the cartel makes in smuggling. The air fleet deployed costs at least another two times more. It is roughly 5,000 times the cost of the suspected drug boats that have been destroyed. Indeed, just the cost of operating the Ford off Venezuela for a single day has still not yet equaled the maximum cost the cartel paid for the boats it has lost.
In the air, the U.S. military spent roughly 66,000 times more to buy each unmanned drone in the operation than the cartel paid each man that the unmanned drones killed. The US spent between 80 to 300 times more for each bomb or missile it has used than the cartel paid each man killed by those bombs or missiles.
The math is arguably even worse when we’re on the defense.
In September, a wave of 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish airspace.. The Gerbera-type drones cost as little as $10,000—so cheap that they are often used as decoys to misdirect and overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses. NATO countered with a half-billion-dollar response force of F-35s, F-16s, AWACS radar planes, and helicopters, which shot down four of the drones with $1.6-million AMRAAM missiles.
This is a bargain compared to how challenging U.S. forces have found it to defend against Houthi forces using this same cheap tech. Our naval forces have fired a reported 120 SM-2, 80 SM-6, and 20 SM-3 missiles, costing about $2.1 million, $3.9 million, and over $9.6 million each. And this is to defend against a group operating out of the 187th-largest economy in the world, able to fire mere hundreds of drones and missiles. Our supposed pacing challenge, China, has an economy that will soon be the largest in the world and a combined national industrial and military acquisition plan to be able to fire munitions by the millions.
Even in America’s best-laid plans for future battlefields, there is a harsh reality that is too often ignored. The math of current battlefields remains literally orders of magnitude beyond what our budget plans to spend, our industry plans to build, our acquisitions system is able to contract, and thus what our military will deploy.
As a point of comparison, Ukraine is on pace to build, buy, and use over four million drones this year. The U.S. Army, meanwhile, aims to acquire 50,000 drones next year—about 1.25 percent of the Ukrainian total. In its most optimistic plans, it hopes to be able to acquire 1 million drones “within the next two to three years.”
When you spend orders of magnitude more than your foe, you are in what is known as a “losing equation.” And if we don’t change this math, we will need an update to Norm Augustine’s infamous “law” of defense acquisitions. Back in 1979, Augustine calculated that if the Pentagon couldn’t curtail the cost curve of its purchasing, by 2054 we wouldn’t be able to afford a single plane.
If we don’t master the new math of the battlefield, we won’t be able to afford to win a single battle.”
The awful arithmetic of our wars
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
P.W. Singer is Strategist at New America and the author of multiple books on technology and security, including Wired for War, Ghost Fleet, Burn-In, and LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media.
#GovernmentInefficiency #GovernmentWaste #Iran #MiddleEast #news #Pentagon #politics #technology #war -
Oil prices rise as attacks dent hopes for Strait of Hormuz reopening | Business and Economy News
Oil prices have jumped as attacks on shipping in the Middle East cast doubt on prospects for a…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #BusinessandEconomy #CA #Canada #Economy #Energy #financialmarkets #MiddleEast #OilandGas
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Oil prices rise as attacks dent hopes for Strait of Hormuz reopening | Business and Economy News
Oil prices have jumped as attacks on shipping in the Middle East cast doubt on prospects for a…
#NewsBeep #News #Business #BusinessandEconomy #CA #Canada #Economy #Energy #Financialmarkets #MiddleEast #OilandGas
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Pakistan minister visits Iran amid rising Middle East tensions https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/pakistan-interior-minister-mohsin-naqvi-visits-iran-middle-east-tensions-hnvtlosr?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Pakistan #Iran #MohsinNaqvi #MiddleEast #StraitOfHormuz
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US strikes Iran-bound ship as mediators signal Hormuz breakthrough
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, signed as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Iran #IranandChina #IranCovid #Iraneconomy #Irangovernment #Iranmedia.IranandtheUnitedStates #IranNews #Irannuclear #Iranpolitics #Iran-US #MiddleEast #USsanctions
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Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways are expected to lower their fuel surcharges on flights from Japan to North America and Europe to ¥50,000 to ¥55,000 for tickets issued in September and October, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/12/companies/jal-ana-fuel-surcharges-cut/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #jal #ana #airlines #aviation #middleeast
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Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways are expected to lower their fuel surcharges on flights from Japan to North America and Europe to ¥50,000 to ¥55,000 for tickets issued in September and October, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/12/companies/jal-ana-fuel-surcharges-cut/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #jal #ana #airlines #aviation #middleeast
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Trump says the US has “total control” of Hormuz after American forces strike a ship bound for Iran. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/trump-reiterates-us-control-strait-hormuz-ship-strike-v2nhamu4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DonaldTrump #StraitOfHormuz #Iran #USIranConflict #MiddleEast
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A Syrian court has sentenced former President Bashar Assad to death after a trial in absentia, convicting him of atrocities committed during the country's nearly 14-year civil war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/12/world/syria-bashar-al-assad-death-in-absentia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #syria #basharalassad #crimesagainsthumanity #middleeast
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A Syrian court has sentenced former President Bashar Assad to death after a trial in absentia, convicting him of atrocities committed during the country's nearly 14-year civil war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/12/world/syria-bashar-al-assad-death-in-absentia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #syria #basharalassad #crimesagainsthumanity #middleeast
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A secret operation reportedly had Air Force One carrying journalists and top aides take off from Turkey without U.S. President Donald Trump due to an apparent risk of an Iranian strike. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/12/world/politics/trump-secret-plane-swap-turkey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #turkey #airforceone
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Pakistan says that the U.S. and Iran are "close" to a deal over the Strait of Hormuz, even after both sides appeared to toughen their positions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/12/world/politics/pakistan-deal-iran-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #iran #straitofhormuz #oil #persiangulf #pakistan #oman
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A new report contradicts public statements from the White House on Air Force One
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/11/g-s1-138233/white-house-air-force-one-report
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Gulf energy producers have acknowledged Iran's assertion of control over the critical Strait of Hormuz. This development occurs amidst attempts to resume passage through this essential route, which are stymied by ongoing tensions. Governments in the region prioritize peace over export delays, while Iran aims for financial easing and a prohibition of international warships, extending the disruption of global energy channels.
#MiddleEast #Gulf #Iran #Strait #Hormuz #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/middle-east-standoff-why-gulf-states-may-accept-that-iran-will-control-the-strait-of-hormuz/articleshow/133161794.cms -
UNRWA is still in Gaza
The UN agency never left.
Get the facts. Take action.
https://www.unrwausa.org/unrwa-is-still-in-gaza#UNRWA’s over 11,000 Palestinian staff on the ground in #Gaza never left and have no intention of going anywhere.
Even after:
Being “banned” by the #Israeli government,
Being defunded by the #US government,
Being blocked by Israel from getting life-saving #aid trucks into Gaza, and
Surviving over two years of what experts know to be a #genocide.#SanctionIsrael #StopStarvingGaza #FreePalestine #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA #GazaBelongsToPalestine
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC #StopGazaGenocide #AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine #StopArmingIsrael #BDS #DivestFromIsrael #SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism #EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #USpol #Trump #news #politics #UN
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Iran has knee on neck of pedophile-loving Arabs
#Iran #Iranwar #Hormuz #middleeast #Israel #war #military #world #internationalNews #politics #Persiangulf #oil #warcrimes #meidastouch #reddit #socialMedia
https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3mssdgako5s2g
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🇮🇷 Iran has rejected new U.S. sanctions, calling Washington’s continued reliance on economic pressure a sign of policy failure and warning it could undermine diplomacy.
🔗 https://gtvnewshd.com/world/2026/08/11/iran-rejects-us-sanctions-diplomatic-failure/
#Iran #US #Sanctions #Diplomacy #MiddleEast #BreakingNews #GTVNews
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