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Iran’s ‘Doomsday Clock’ Against Israel No Longer Ticking but Guess Who Is Waiting in the Wings
by Nils A. Haug - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22325/iran-turkey-waiting
Tehran’s infamous “doomsday clock” was designed to count down to the annihilation of Israel in the year 2040. Instead, it appears finally to have ceased operating at the 2026 mark, along with many leaders of Iran’s extremist Islamic regime.
The irony of Iran’s rout by its two most-hated enemies -- the “Great Satan” United States and the “Little Satan” Israel -- must be seismic in Iran’s major centers, where much of the civilian population openly celebrates, not the end of Israel as intended by Shia clerics, but, instead, the hoped-for final days of an apparently much-hated regime.
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The Strait of Hormuz Is the Real Battlefield — Not Just the Oil
By Tania Koenig - https://watch.org/node/139707
The war involving Iran, Israel, and the United States is widely being described through the language of missiles, airstrikes, and retaliation. That description is incomplete. The center of gravity in this conflict is not located in Tehran, Beirut, or even along Israel’s borders. It is located in a narrow maritime corridor through which the modern global economy breathes: the Strait of Hormuz.
Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through this chokepoint, but the strategic importance of Hormuz goes far beyond oil. The same corridor is critical for petrochemicals, liquefied natural gas, and essential inputs for agriculture, including fertilizers that are directly tied to crop production in major importing countries, including the United States. Any sustained disruption does not simply move energy prices; it transmits pressure into food systems, supply chains, and inflation across entire economies.
