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PROFILE: The CRINK axis fractures — after the Iran-USA deal, Moscow, Beijing and Kim recalculate
The word CRINK — China, Russia, Iran, North Korea — has entered Western strategic vocabulary to describe what some analysts call the
INVESTIGATION: Oil below $75 — how the US-Iran deal is reshaping Moscow's war
In one week of June 2026, the global oil market underwent a spectacular transformation. On June 22, 2026, Brent crude fell to
ESSAY: ASEAN uses the Hormuz crisis to accelerate the South China Sea Code of Conduct
History holds crises that, instead of paralyzing, catalyze. The Strait of Hormuz crisis of March to June 2026 belongs in that category
COLUMN: Kim Jong-un draws the lesson from Iran — without the bomb, you end up bombed
While the world watched American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in the spring of 2026, one man was taking notes in Pyongyang.
ANALYSIS: Iran's $100 billion in frozen assets — anatomy of a treasure under strict conditions
There is a colossal financial dimension to the Burgenstock accords that media have largely undercovered in favour of the nuclear and geopolitical
TESTIMONY: The CRINK axis watches Iran capitulate — and draws its own survival lessons
Here is an uncomfortable truth that the Burgenstock negotiators appear to have underestimated: while Washington and Tehran were signing their 60-day memorandum,
NARRATIVE: Iranian oil returns, Moscow loses 20 percent of its revenues in one week
In a single week of June 2026, the return of Iranian oil to world markets set off a shock wave that Moscow
PROFILE: Pezeshkian, the man who says no to Washington on enriched uranium
On June 22, 2026, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian uttered words that chilled diplomats around the world: Iran will "never back down" on
EDITORIAL: Hormuz Reopens, Brent Falls to $73 — But Oil Normalization Will Take Months
Twenty percent of global oil transits through a passage just 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest: the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran