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The Iran War is ongoing. We’ve covered it from Day 1. 🌐 Strikes | Hormuz | Energy | Geopolitics ✅ Verified facts & sources named 🚫 No spin. No panic. No opinion fog. If you want signal, not noise, this is the feed. 📡 CSN24X7

This quote is real but it’s half the picture. The same analyst told Reuters this week that Iran has “crossed every red line with every Gulf country” and that Gulf states fear being “left to confront Iran alone” if the US pulls out early. The frustration with Washington is genuine. So is the dependence on it. The Gulf isn’t walking away from the US security umbrella. It’s trying to renegotiate the price from a position where it has no viable alternative and knows it. Anger at your protector and needing your protector are not mutually exclusive. The Gulf is living both simultaneously. 📡 CSN24X7

Saudi researcher Abdulaziz Sager: “The U.S. did not consult the Gulf states when it launched the war, and its military bases failed to protect the host countries. After the war, we will reconsider the regional security system and our relations with the U.S.”

Iran just turned history into a passport. Japan stayed neutral in 1980 when the West backed Iraq. Tehran remembers. Today Japanese tankers get passage through Hormuz while 22 NATO-aligned nations are locked out. Araghchi confirmed it directly that Iran and Japan share a “long history of friendly relations.” Every government watching this is now running the same calculation, where did we stand 46 years ago, and does Tehran remember? Neutrality was a choice then. 📡 CSN24X7

🚨 BREAKING: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: In response to a French journalist’s question about why only Japanese oil tankers are allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz: "During the Iran-Iraq War in 1980, Japan was the only Western country that supported our nation. Iran and Japan share a long history of friendly relations."

A 48-hour ultimatum. Five days of talks. The biggest deadline of the war quietly became a diplomatic window. Trump threatened to obliterate Iran’s power plants by tonight. Instead the White House is describing “very good and productive conversations” toward a complete resolution of hostilities. All strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure postponed, subject to talks holding. The energy market needed a signal. Brent at $112, Hormuz blocked, Ras Laffan offline, Primorsk struck. Five days of talks is not a resolution but tonight it’s enough to move oil. The war didn’t end tonight. The clock just reset. 📡 CSN24X7

Breaking news: Donald Trump has postponed his threatened attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure following 'good and productive' talks with Iran. ft.trib.al/z9FqGFH

The deadline just changed. With hours to spare before Trump’s 23:44 GMT power plant strike ultimatum, the White House announced the US and Iran have held “very good and productive conversations” toward a complete resolution of hostilities. All military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure are postponed for five days subject to talks continuing successfully. 48 hours ago deadline was given to obliterate Iran’s power plants. Tonight it is productive conversations toward total resolution. The energy market, the 22-nation coalition, and 150 ships anchored outside Hormuz are all waiting on the same question, whether five days of talks holds, or becomes the next deadline. 📡 CSN24X7 #IranWar #Hormuz

Three of the world’s most critical energy arteries are offline or under threat tonight and the deadline hasn’t even hit yet. Qatar’s Ras Laffan, the world’s largest LNG complex was struck, is offline, and will need three to five years to repair. Primorsk, Russia’s largest Baltic oil terminal handling 1.5 million barrels a day had a drone strike overnight, operations suspended. Hormuz, the strait carrying 20% of global oil has been blockaded since Day 1, deadline expires at 23:44 GMT tonight. This isn’t an energy crisis anymore. It’s an energy system failure, happening simultaneously, with no coordinated recovery plan in sight. The IEA called this the greatest energy security threat in history. Tonight, you can see exactly why. 📡 CSN24X7 #IranWar‌

South Korea has 26 vessels and 183 crew members trapped inside the strait right now. That’s why this call happened. Seoul sources 60% of its crude through Hormuz. It joined the 22-nation coalition. It’s asking Iran directly for safe passage. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun called Araghchi today, the first such call since the war began, urging guaranteed vessel safety and a halt to civilian attacks across the Gulf. Araghchi “explained Iran’s position.” The diplomatic phrase for “no commitment made.” Hours earlier, Iran’s military threatened to mine the entire Gulf if its coasts are attacked. Seoul got a conversation. The strait got a new threat. 📡 CSN24X7

BREAKING: South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun asked his Iranian counterpart on Monday to ensure the safety of vessels still in the Strait of Hormuz and voiced his concern about the impact of the war on Iran on the global economy, his office said.

Europe didn’t walk into this crisis. It was already on its knees when it arrived. Three successive shocks in four years - pandemic supply chains, Russia’s gas cutoff after Ukraine, and now Hormuz. Each time, European industry absorbed the hit and restructured around higher energy costs. There is no restructuring left to do. The margin is gone. The Iran war isn’t Europe’s third energy shock. It’s the one that lands on a patient who never fully recovered from the first two. What’s at stake isn’t quarterly earnings. It’s whether European heavy industry has a viable future at all. 📡 CSN24X7

After years battling the fallout from the global pandemic, the spike in energy costs triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and then punishing US tariffs, war in the Middle East is ramping up the cost of key raw materials once again. While the fallout from war in the Gulf is hitting companies worldwide, it's punching harder in Europe where energy prices are already higher than other regions reut.rs/3PpbSOt

“Important investments” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline. Qatar’s Ras Laffan, the world’s largest LNG complex is offline. Repairs will take three to five years with revenue loss of $20 billion annually. Qatar supplies 20% of global LNG. Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura, the kingdom’s largest refinery, was struck and halted. Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi, UAE’s Habshan gas facility, all hit in the same week. Iran didn’t just target Western investments. It systematically dismantled the Gulf’s energy architecture, the same infrastructure the world was counting on to absorb the Hormuz shock. The backup plan just became the primary casualty. 📡 CSN24X7

Some of the Western oil industry’s most important investments have become targets for Iran in its war with the U.S. and Israel on.wsj.com/3PCGR9L

A projectile landed 350 metres from an operational nuclear reactor. The IAEA confirmed it. Russia built that plant, operates it, and has hundreds of its own specialists inside. Moscow isn’t warning Washington out of solidarity with Iran. It’s warning because a Bushehr radiation leak into the Persian Gulf would contaminate the desalination plants that supply drinking water to every Gulf state including the ones hosting US forces. Tonight Trump threatened to strike power plants. Russia just told him that one of them has consequences no one in this war is prepared for. The most dangerous escalation tonight may not be military. It may be geological. 📡 CSN24X7

⁠US-Israeli strikes ⁠near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran are extremely dangerous and Russia has ⁠shared its concerns with the US, says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/e3f29t

The Economist called it a sugar high four hours ago. Ukraine just pulled the plug on the IV drip. Primorsk, Russia’s largest Baltic oil terminal with 1.5 million barrels a day was struck by Ukrainian drones overnight. Both Primorsk and Ust-Luga have suspended operations. Reuters confirmed. The port handling the majority of Russia’s maritime oil exports is now offline. Russia needed $112 Brent and an open Baltic exit to convert the Hormuz windfall into real revenue. Tonight it has neither. The windfall had a shelf life of four hours. 📡 CSN24X7

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has brought Russia a sugar high. But that cannot fix all its troubles economist.com/europe/2026/03…

Russia was quietly winning the energy war with $112 Brent, Hormuz closed, and a shadow fleet moving oil nobody officially wanted to buy. Ukraine just changed the math. Primorsk handles 1.5 million barrels a day. Both Primorsk and Ust-Luga have now suspended operations. That’s not a symbolic strike, that’s a direct hit on the revenue line funding Moscow’s war effort. Two of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints disrupted in the same 24 hours. The global energy map is being redrawn tonight. 📡 CSN24X7

Ukraine attacked Russia’s largest oil port in the Baltic Sea to prevent it from benefiting from rising oil prices: about 60% of Russia’s maritime oil exports pass through the port of Primorsk.

Britain is threading the finest of needles tonight. Starmer says there’s no assessment Iran is targeting the mainland but Tehran has already told London that allowing US strikes from British bases makes it a participant in aggression. You can’t be strategically involved and diplomatically neutral at the same time. The emergency cabinet meeting this morning with Reeves, Cooper, Miliband, and the Bank of England Governor all in the same room tells you everything about where the real UK pressure point is. It’s not military. It’s economic. Britain isn’t afraid of a missile. It’s afraid of what $112 Brent does to an already fragile economy by summer. 📡 CSN24X7

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday there was no assessment that Iran was targeting mainland Britain. “We carry out assessments all the time… and there’s no assessment that we’re being targeted in that way,” Starmer told reporters. He also said efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would require a clear plan, adding his priority was to protect British interests and de-escalate the conflict. iranintl.com/en/202603230143

Twenty-two nations just answered the question the world was asking but the harder question is whether coordination is enough. NATO, Japan, South Korea, Australia, UAE, Bahrain - all working through what’s needed, when, and how. Rutte calls it implementing Trump’s vision. Iran calls the strait closed only to enemies. Both can be true simultaneously. The deadline is tonight. The coalition is ready. Whether the strait opens peacefully or by force, the energy market wakes up to a different world tomorrow. 📡 CSN24X7

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says more than 20 countries have agreed to work on efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran insists the crucial waterway is only closed to what it calls its enemies.

The US has two Marine Expeditionary Units simultaneously heading to the Middle East, close to 9,000 additional forces combined. The 11th MEU departed San Diego 3 weeks ahead of schedule aboard USS Boxer. The 31st MEU is already en route from Japan aboard USS Tripoli. F-35s, helicopters, amphibious assault ships. These are not defensive escort forces. MEUs conduct amphibious landings, coastal raids, and island seizures. Kharg Island handles 90% of Iran’s oil exports. The deadline is tonight. 📡 CSN24X7 | Source: Reuters / AP / CNN / WSJ #IranWar #Hormuz

Japan is telling citizens not to panic-buy toilet paper because of a war in the Strait of Hormuz. This is what a closed chokepoint looks like outside the Gulf, not missiles or oil prices, just ordinary people in Tokyo stockpiling daily necessities because the global supply chain feels uncertain. The war’s psychological reach extends far beyond the battlefield. 📡 CSN24X7

Japan’s government urged citizens not to panic-buy toilet paper as social media posts suggest people are starting to stockpile daily necessities out of concern over the war in the Middle East bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Iran war is making the case for energy transition faster than any climate policy ever did. China’s top battery makers gained $70bn in market value as governments scramble to reduce oil dependency. The Hormuz crisis is doing what carbon taxes couldn’t, making fossil fuel vulnerability impossible to ignore. The war has a winner no one expected. 📡 CSN24X7

China battery trio gain $70bn as Iran war sparks ‘paradigm shift’ ft.trib.al/U4qbOIf

The deadline expires tonight. The facts on the ground support the concern. Iran has explicitly warned that striking power plants triggers complete permanent Hormuz closure plus attacks on all US energy infrastructure in the region. Trump’s Treasury Secretary says the US will demolish Hormuz fortifications completely. Neither side has a controlled off-ramp publicly visible. That’s what makes tonight consequential. 📡 CSN24X7

Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to Iran has to be taken seriously. It could set off a reaction he cannot control, writes @MarcChampion1 (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Goldman Sachs raising their 2026 Brent average forecast to $85/barrel. Bessent last week said oil would fall “much lower than $80” after the war ends. The market and the Treasury Secretary have different views on what comes after. At $112 today, both are a long way from here. The question is what Hormuz looks like in six months. 📡 CSN24X7

Goldman Sachs raises 2026 Brent crude average price forecast by $8 to $85 a barrel reut.rs/3PtxBEY reut.rs/3PtxBEY

CENTCOM confirms the destruction of Iran’s Qom Turbine Engine Production Plant, the facility that made gas turbine engines for IRGC attack drones including the Shahed series. Before and after satellite images released. The plant is gone. Iran has fired hundreds of Shahed drones at Gulf states throughout this war. The factory that built their engines no longer exists. 📡 CSN24X7 | Source: CENTCOM #IranWar‌

The US is bombing Iran. Washington is also allowing Iranian oil already loaded on tankers to be sold, to keep prices from rising further. China’s state refiners are now exploring those purchases. The war has a sanctions carve-out. China is the buyer. Iran is the seller. The US sanctioned the relationship and then partially unsanctioned it under price pressure. $100 WTI. $112 Brent. Still not low enough to ignore the contradiction. 📡 CSN24X7

China’s state-owned refiners have begun exploring purchases of Iranian crude, according to sources, after Washington allowed the sale of some oil already loaded onto tankers in an effort to limit price rises due to the Middle East conflict bloomberg.com/news/articles/…