Andrea Vreede

Il processo al cardinale Becciu è da rifare, la decisione della corte d’appello vaticana editorialedomani.it/fatti/il-proce…

Iran did not close the Strait of Hormuz. It converted it into a tollgate. The toll is not money. It is alignment. And the country with the world’s largest navy is not on the list of those who may pass. Foreign Minister Araghchi stated it explicitly: the Strait is “open but closed only to our enemies and their allies.” Ten countries have been offered safe passage: China, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Iraq. Iran ships approximately 1.3 million barrels per day to China through the “closed” strait via shadow fleet and dark transits. India is in active talks with Tehran for the release of three seized tankers in exchange for medicines and equipment. The waterway that Goldman Sachs says collapsed from 19.5 million to 0.5 million barrels per day is not closed to everyone. It is closed to the coalition that bombed Iran and open to the rest of the world on terms Iran dictates. This is not a blockade. It is a permissions system. And the permissions are rewriting the geopolitical map in real time. Every country on the safe-passage list gains a competitive energy advantage over every country excluded from it. Chinese refineries receive Iranian crude at $9 to $12 below Brent while Western buyers pay $96.72. Indian tankers negotiate passage while American carriers patrol outside. Turkish trade continues while British Airways cancels flights. The selective enforcement creates a two-tier global economy: countries that can access Gulf energy because Iran permits it, and countries that cannot because Iran does not. The first tier includes every major non-Western economy. The second tier includes the world’s superpower and its allies. Iran’s endgame is not victory. It is attrition toward terms. Araghchi told CBS the war ends only when Iran is “certain it will not be repeated” and reparations are paid. No ceasefire has been requested. Resistance continues “as long as it takes.” The selective Hormuz enforcement is the mechanism: it sustains revenue through China flows, preserves diplomatic options through India and Gulf talks, and inflicts maximum economic pain on the coalition while minimising alienation of the countries Iran needs for long-term survival. The US objective is the mirror image: targeted degradation of nuclear, missile, drone, and naval capabilities to restore free Hormuz transit without a ground war. Fifteen thousand strikes have destroyed Iran’s air force, navy, and air defences. But they have not reopened the Strait because the Strait was not closed by military hardware. It was closed by insurance cancellations, mine threats, and a permissions list that no bomb can erase. The war has produced a paradox that neither side anticipated. America can destroy everything Iran builds but cannot open the waterway Iran controls. Iran cannot stop the bombs but can decide who sails. The military supremacy is American. The chokepoint sovereignty is Iranian. And the ten countries on the safe-passage list are watching both sides bleed while their tankers transit under the protection of the regime the superpower is bombing. Araghchi demands guarantees and reparations. Trump demands warships and coalition escorts. Neither has what the other requires. The guarantees require American withdrawal. The escorts require allied participation that Japan, Australia, and Germany have refused. The war continues because neither side can offer what the other needs to stop it, and the Strait remains a tollgate because the toll, political alignment, is the one currency America cannot pay. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

After thirteen years, the lights of the papal apartments have finally been switched on 💡 Pope Leo XIV has settled into his newly renovated apartment on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace since March 14 🏛️ FULL STORY AT LINK 🔗 romereports.com/en/2026/03/16/…

In an article published today following his private audience with Pope Leo XIV, British financial journalist Gareth Gore—author of “Opus [Dei]: dark money, a secretive cult, and its mission to remake our world”— says it was the Pope who requested the meeting. Gore writes that a Peruvian journalist contacted him several weeks ago saying Pope Leo XIV “was well aware” of his work on Opus Dei and “was keen to speak” with him. Gore also details what he told the Pope during the 40-minute meeting—which included urging him to “reopen the beatification and canonization of the group’s founder, Josemaría Escrivá.” Read Gore’s article here: garethgore.substack.com/p/my-audience-…

Het #Vaticaan maakt bekend dat #paus Leo XIV vanmiddag met zijn naaste medewerkers zijn intrek neemt in het pauselijk appartement in het Apostolisch Paleis. Zijn voorganger Franciscus bleef liever in het gastenverblijf maar Prevost keert terug naar de vertrouwde plek

The appointment of a papal personal assistant is very delicate, and Pope Leo XIV has decided on a very particular candidate. 📢 Read the full story ➡️ romereports.com/en/2026/03/12/…

Già 1.100 “danni collaterali” Sono i bambini morti e feriti nella guerra in Medio Oriente, dove la situazione umanitaria è fuori controllo e un’ulteriore escalation colpirebbe 60 milioni di persone osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2026-0…

Six million Italians are obese, a crisis affecting 1 in 3 children. (ANSA) - ROME, MAR 3 - Six million Italians are obese and the crisis affects one in three Italian children, according to figures released ahead of World Obesity Day Wednesday.... #ANSA ow.ly/4XW9106vk50

"Preoccupato per il Medio Oriente, la guerra di nuovo! Dio vuole pace" #PapaLeoneXIV nella parrocchia dell’Ascensione al Quarticciolo, ricorda la tragedia dei bambini morti a Gaza, l’inizio di un nuovo conflitto in #Iran e la piaga della droga 👉shorturl.at/5Rxzp