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Montevideo, April 8th 2026 - 22:19 UTC

Tag: Persian Gulf

  • Wednesday, April 1st 2026 - 10:12 UTC

    Trump running out of options in Iran, a US victory is possible?

    The US Navy is not crazy enough to send its big ships into the Persian Gulf, so the troops will have to be redistributed into other, smaller forms of sea and air transport.

    By Gwynne Dyer - The Iranians know they have won, but President Trump doesn’t get it yet. He’s still at the stage of counting up the US and Israeli air-strikes and assuming that those numbers mean a US victory is possible. But five gets you ten that the Iranians are already thinking about nuclear weapons. Not their own, which don’t exist. America’s.

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  • Sunday, March 26th 2023 - 14:32 UTC

    Borrell warns lithium can make Latin America the “new Persian Gulf”

    In an interview with EFE, Borrell underscored Latin America's “enormous reserves of lithium” and the upcoming international demand for the mineral

    The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell said during an interview in Santo Domingo where he is attending the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit that Latin America is underestimated when it has the potential of becoming the “new Persian Gulf.”

  • Friday, November 6th 2015 - 14:54 UTC

    Why America invented Ahmad Chalabi

    Chalabi was less a cause of the Iraq war than a convenient enabler of it. He was an answer to US’s problems, not Iraq’s

    The following piece by Gideon Rose (*) was published in The New York Times Opinion page and helps to understand much about the Iraq war and ongoing instability.