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#Yemen's #Houthis may cut off another trade route between Asia and Europe, Iran claims

“If cut off, vessels would need to sail all the way around Africa's Cape of Good Hope rather than taking the #Suez Canal, adding about two weeks to a journey.”

https://www.9news.com.au/world/yemen-houthis-bab-almandab-strait-iran-middle-east-updates-blockade-usa-trade-news/4534861d-2848-4634-a48e-32fb147bfacc

Yemen's Houthis may cut off trade route between Asia and Europe, Iran claims

<p>A powerful militia could cut off one of the world's most important shipping routes in solidarity with Iran.</p>

9News

guepier92 🌿🐝🇫🇷10h ago

📷 #Photographie Le Musée d'Orsay expose un rare album de photographies réalisées par Louis Robert Cuvier en 1866 et 1867, précieux reportage sur le chantier de l’extrême qu’a représenté la construction du canal de #Suez

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/archives-musee-dorsay-louis-robert-cuvier-le-chantier-du-canal-de-suez/

Archives : Musée d’Orsay : Louis Robert Cuvier : Le chantier du canal de Suez

Le musée d’Orsay expose un rare album de photographies réalisées par Louis Robert Cuvier en 1866 et 1867, précieux reportage sur le chantier de […]

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Richard Michael Blaber 1d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran. "These [food system] vulnerabilities are exacerbated by the use of just-in-time #supplychains & the funnelling of much of the world’s #trade through a number of #chokepoints. Some people have long warned that the strait of #Hormuz, alongside the #Suez canal, #Turkish straits, #Panama canal & straits of #Malacca, are critical chokepoints, whose obstruction would threaten the flow of #food, #fertiliser, #fuel & other crucial #agricultural #commodities."

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

Isabel Ruffell Mar 17

This may not be an original observation, but #Trump's Iran war has me increasinly thinking of the Suez crisis and the end of Britain's aspirations to be a serious global player

The suggestion that he is going to send marines to seize some commercially or strategically significant part of the country, egged on by Israel, sounds awfully familiar.

#Iran #Suez #imperialism.

MaKaNaS Mar 16

Irán clava los últimos clavos en el ataúd del imperio estadounidense

Irán clava los últimos clavos en el ataúd del imperio... #iran #usa #trump #netanyahu #israel #oriente #medio #suez #imperio #britanico #Actualidad

https://tardigram.com/m/Actualidad/t/21663

karibu Mar 13

"L'Iran possède beaucoup plus de leviers géopolitiques que ce que pensaient les États-Unis"

https://vid.freedif.org/w/pxchTTJ1HAyo5BgATqxfep

"L'Iran possède beaucoup plus de leviers géopolitiques que ce que pensaient les États-Unis"

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NoBorg Mar 4

""The Suez Canal and the Red Sea are also under tension and threats," Mr Macron said. "We are taking the initiative to build a coalition to pool resources, including military resources, to resume and secure traffic in these waterways essential to the global economy."
#Macron #France #EU #Hormuz #Iran #Suez
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/europe/2026/03/03/frances-macron-says-military-operation-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-is-on-table/