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Brent at $109, a New PM in Baghdad, and the Quiet Reordering of the Middle East
Ali al-Zaidi takes Iraq's wheel as oil tops $109. The two facts are not unrelated — and Washington should be losing sleep.
14 saat önce · 4 min read
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Natasha Volkov
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Tehran's Five Conditions and a $109 Barrel: The Price of Iranian Patience
Iran has handed Washington a take-it-or-leave-it list. Brent is already up 2.5%. Whoever blinks first pays in oil, ships, and credibility.
1 gün önce · 4 min read
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Tehran's Five Conditions and the $106 Barrel: Iran Plays the Strait Card Again
Iran hardens its terms before sitting with Washington. Brent is already pricing the threat. The BRICS in India will price the politics.
3 gün önce · 4 min read
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Tehran Plays the 90 Percent Card, and Brent Barely Blinks
Iran threatens weapons-grade enrichment and rattles Hormuz. Oil drops a buck. The market knows something the diplomats won't say.
4 gün önce · 4 min read
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Hormuz Theatre, Caspian Dividend: The Quiet Geography Rewriting Eurasia's Oil Map
Brent at $104.95 isn't a spike — it's a sentence. And Central Asia is busy translating it into infrastructure.
5 gün önce · 4 min read
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Brent at $105 and a President Threatening to 'Blow Up' Anyone Near Iran's Uranium
Trump's warning about Tehran's buried stockpile isn't diplomacy. It's the soundtrack to a $105 barrel — and the market is listening.
6 gün önce · 4 min read
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The Tanker Map Has Become the Treaty: Brent at $101 and the Ceasefire Nobody Trusts
A suspected oil slick off Kharg, an IRGC warning to Washington, and a barrel that won't fall — the Gulf is bargaining in crude, not communiqués.
10.05.2026 · 4 min read
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Putin's Ceasefire Theater and the Art of Wartime Symbolism
A May 9 pause in fighting would be a propaganda gift wrapped in Soviet nostalgia — and everyone in Moscow knows it.
30.04.2026 · 3 min read
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Mali's Rebellion Against Russia Signals the Limits of Wagner's Shadow Empire
A rebel offensive in the Sahel exposes Moscow's overstretched African gambit—and offers a blueprint for others watching from the sidelines.
29.04.2026 · 3 min read