India Could Put Chabahar on Slow Burner as IMEC Gathers Pace
February 27th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on how abandoning its Chabahar port project is not a preferred option for India as its Central Asia ambitions depend on trade via this Iranian port: To apply “maximum pressure” on Iran to “end its nuclear threat, curtail its ballistic missile program and stop its support for terrorist groups,” U.S. […]
Read more »Chabahar: Where Trump Is Hurting India and Helping China
February 24th, 2025
Via the Asia Times, commentary on how President Trump’s decisions to end a sanctions waiver on the India-invested Iranian port, jeopardizes Quad cohesion and boosts China’s position and power: When Indian Prime Minister Narendra recently met with US President Donald Trump at the White House, Iran’s Chabahar Port wasn’t apparently on the two leaders’ broad […]
Read more »Will the Trump Administration Grant the Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Project a Sanctions Waiver?
January 22nd, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on how – if Pakistan does not keep its part of the pipeline agreement with Iran – it will have to shell out a potential $18 billion to Tehran: Pakistan’s Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik announced in December that he planned to request a sanctions waiver for the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project from […]
Read more »Iran Races to Sell Oil Stored in China
January 16th, 2025
Via the Wall Street Journal, a report that Tehran has shipped out nearly 3 million barrels to raise money that could be used to shore up its allied militias in the Middle East: Iran has shipped nearly 3 million barrels of oil from a storage site in China, people familiar with the matter said, in […]
Read more »Conflict Is Remaking the Middle East’s Economic Order
December 22nd, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at how conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order where Iran is boxed in as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey look to capitalize: THE LIQUIDITY crunch could not have come at a worse time. Usually, most of Hizbullah’s budget arrives on a plane in Damascus, the Syrian capital, with […]
Read more »Iran’s Energy Crisis Hits ‘Dire’ Point as Industries Are Forced to Shut Down
December 22nd, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on Iran – which although it has one of the biggest supplies of natural gas and crude oil in the world – finds itself in a full blown energy emergency, coming just as it also suffers major geopolitical setbacks: Government offices in Iran are closed or operating […]
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