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Tehran Vows ‘Faster, Harder, More Painful’ Strikes

September 6, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned on 6 September that Tehran will strike back harder and faster in response to any new US strikes, following the latest exchange of fire between Washington and the Islamic Republic.  Washington must “understand” before it is “too late” that “the era of ‘proportionate responses’ is over,” the parliament speaker said. “From now on, any aggression against Iran’s interests and security will receive a faster, heavier and more painful response,” he added.  Ghalibaf was further quoted as saying that the “rules of the game have changed.”

Strait Of Hormuz Will Reopen Only When US Accepts Iran’s Conditions

August 13, 2026 Press TV, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
Mohsen Rezaei, the newly appointed head of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), told Chinese Ambassador to Tehran Zong Piyu in a Tuesday meeting that the US must end the war on Iran and its regional allies and release Iran’s blocked funds for a full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. “As long as the US does not change its behavior and accept Iran’s conditions, the Strait of Hormuz will not be reopened,” Rezaei said in the meeting. He said Iran has also communicated some other conditions to the US through intermediaries that have been involved in indirect negotiations between the two sides in the past weeks.

Passage Through Strait Of Hormuz Impossible Due To US Aggression

August 2, 2026 Press TV, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
“Due to the continued aggressive actions of the United States military forces in the region, passage through the Strait of Hormuz is not possible,” the authority said in a Friday statement, issued in response to repeated inquiries from applicants. It added that all pending requests would be reviewed in chronological order once the situation stabilizes. “As soon as stability and calm are restored, all applications will be reviewed based on their order and schedule, and permits will be issued gradually,” the statement said. The announcement comes amid US aggression on Iran and Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US assets.

Trump Again Backs Down From Bombing Iran

August 2, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
US President Donald Trump announced he has called off a potential attack on Iran and its energy infrastructure, claiming progress had been made in negotiations between Washington and Tehran. "I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL," Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Saturday night. On Friday, Trump held discussions with his advisors at Camp David in which plans were drawn up to target Iran's energy infrastructure, including oil refineries and power plants supplying electricity to millions of civilians in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Iran Rejects US Ceasefire Proposal Delivered By Iraqi Prime Minister

July 24, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Iranian officials have rejected a US ceasefire proposal personally delivered to Tehran by the Iraqi prime minister, the New York Times (NYT) reported on 24 July, citing Iranian and Iraqi officials. US President Donald Trump gave the proposal to Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi during their meeting at the White House earlier this month. Tehran reportedly rejected the proposal on Friday after Washington completed its 12th straight night of bombing Iran. According to the NYT report, Iranian and Iraqi officials did not reveal details of the ceasefire proposal. However, Iranian negotiators rejected the proposal because Tehran is “not interested in a temporary deal that left the question of control over the Strait of Hormuz unresolved,” the NYT wrote.

China’s Oil Strategy And What The West Leaves Out

July 23, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. , , , ,
There has been an abundance of information around China’s oil strategy of recent, some of it sensible, most of it unremarkably a part of the western led China-bashing package, and as a whole, the glut of analysis has all been quite confusing. That confusion should not be surprising considering our political climate. China is responding to an international economic system experiencing the United State’s own existential instability. Washington has increasingly treated tariffs, sanctions, financial restrictions, and executive orders as instruments of economic statecraft.

The Global Food Crisis

July 22, 2026 Ruben Bauer Naveira, Black Agenda Report. , , , , ,
This article is a warning. A global food crisis is likely approaching — driven by the collapse of supply chains feeding the agri-food system, a consequence of the war against Iran and the resulting blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The prospect has gone largely unnoticed by most political and economic actors. Supply crises, as a rule, are resolved through the Law of Supply and Demand. When supply falls, prices rise; those who can afford to pay grumble but pay, while those who cannot find a cheaper substitute. Or do without. But we are talking about food — and food is indispensable to life.

International Shipping Firms Shun US-Controlled Hormuz Corridor

July 16, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
International shipping companies are avoiding crossing the Strait of Hormuz through the US-controlled alternative corridor that runs along the Omani coastline due to fears of Iranian strikes, sources told Reuters on 16 July. After a series of Iranian strikes on ships attempting to bypass the Iranian-designated shipping channels as mandated in the Iran–US memorandum of understanding (MoU), shipping companies are reassessing the safety and viability of US military escort through the strait. “The US doesn't seem to have any control over the situation,” one shipping source said.

Iran Hits UAE Supertankers Amid ‘Ongoing’ Retaliation To US War

July 14, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The Emirati government said on 14 July that two of its tankers were struck by Iranian cruise missiles while attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran continued its “ongoing” retaliatory campaign in response to US escalation. “National tankers Mombasa and Al-Bahiyah were targeted by two Iranian cruise missiles while transiting the southern shipping lane of the Strait of Hormuz, within Omani territorial waters,” said the UAE Defense Ministry.  An Indian crewmember was killed and eight others wounded on the Mombasa vessel, the ministry added. 

Trump Says US ‘Reinstating’ Blockade Of Iranian Ports

July 13, 2026 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. , , ,
President Trump on Monday said that the US was “reinstating” the blockade of Iranian ports and would also charge a 20% fee for all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, a declaration that came after US officials had repeatedly said it would be illegal for Iran to charge fees for ships passing through the waterway. “The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

IRGC, Iranian Army Launch Regionwide Retaliation

July 12, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Iran launched a large-scale wave of retaliatory military operations targeting Washington’s assets in Jordan, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain early on 12 July, following an overnight US escalation involving heavy strikes against the Islamic Republic.  The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the strikes as a response to the “aggression of the child-killing US army.” In several statements, the IRGC said its Aerospace Force struck the Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan, “destroying” its command-and-control center and MQ-9 drone hangars with ballistic missiles. 

US Issues ‘Ultimatum’ That Iran Commit To End Tanker Attacks In Hormuz

July 11, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
The US warned of "grave consequences" if Iran engages in "hostile" activity in the Strait of Hormuz, including targeting tankers transiting the strategic waterway, Al-Arabiya reported on 11 July, citing sources. Washington has also demanded a written commitment from Iran that it will not attack tankers in the strait again, according to informed sources who spoke with the Saudi news channel. A US official speaking with Axios said: “We want them to publicly say that they will stop shooting at ships and explicitly, or at least implicitly, acknowledge that they screwed up.” 

US Begins Bombing Iran For The Second Night

July 9, 2026 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. , , ,
US Central Command said on Wednesday that the US started bombing Iran again, marking the second night of US strikes, which came after President Trump said the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding was “over” and threatened more attacks. Iranian media reported explosions near several Iranian cities along the coast, including Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Konarak, and Chabahar, and said that Iranian air defenses are confronting “hostile targets.” Iran’s IRNA news agency reported that a firefighter was killed by US strikes that hit facilities at the Iranshahr airport in southeastern Iran.

Nebraska Soil, Mid-East Oil

July 3, 2026 Kai Huschke, Resilience. , , , ,
The Fertile Crescent, what we know today as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Turkey and Iran, is considered the birthplace of agriculture. Flood-enriched soil from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers made for exceptional farming. Today, 500 miles from where the two rivers empty into the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz is under a blockade, impacting farming in the United States. A stalemate between the United States and Israel and that of Iran, the blockade is affecting the global movement of fossil fuels. Posturing, threats, and deadly actions continue between the three nations, putting more lives at risk and stressing out economies.

Israel’s Suicidal Rupture With The United States

June 23, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , , ,
Israel is sabotaging the negotiations with Iran and alienating its last important ally by refusing to halt its attacks on Lebanon and withdraw from its occupation of the south. It is determined to reignite a regional conflagration that could see Iran perpetually close the Strait of Hormuz and plunge the global economy into a global depression. And it continues its genocide in Gaza. Israel is contaminated by racism and genocidal violence. It is blinded by a repugnant moral superiority. It is corrupted by a class of Zionist billionaires in the U.S. who use their wealth to bend foreign policy to serve Israeli interests. It is equipped with a nuclear arsenal Israeli officials have repeatedly threatened to use.
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