"Navigation through the #StraitofHormuz — a chokepoint for around 20% ​of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies — has been severely affected by ⁠unprecedented military activity, the oil ministry said in a letter dated March 17 and seen ​by Reuters. Most #Iraqi crude exports transit the #Strait, and the disruptions have caused storage capacity ​to reach its limits, the letter said."

#IranUSWar
#oilandgas
#costofliving

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iraq-declares-force-majeure-foreign-operated-oilfields-over-hormuz-disruption-2026-03-20/

US is winning the special military operation against Iran so hard they needed to lessen the sanctions on oil coming from *checks notes* Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-sanctions-iranian-oil

Donald Trump remains a master strategist.

#USpol #Iran #IranUSWar

"Whatever #Trump chooses to do from here, the American president is now being driven by events instead of controlling them. Like a gambler chasing his losses, he keeps investing new money to stay at the table. Worse, Trump faces far more risk today than he did during his first throw of the dice: If he quits anytime soon, he will affirm that the #Iranian control of oil is an even more effective shield against #regimechange than any putative nuclear program."

#IranUSWar

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war/686470/?gift=36MUroklPHjSVbIeXUwSvZTeUN7haCf3bE0nM9i78Vg

"The wars have hastened the departure of some of #Israel ’s most educated people for jobs in American, European, and Australian companies, universities, and hospitals. (During the past three years of #Netanyahu ’s government, beginning with his assault on the judiciary and continuing into the prolonged war in #Gaza, some two hundred thousand Israelis have left the country.)"

#IranUSWar

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/sheltering-in-jerusalem-and-looking-at-the-iran-war

But America’s fossil-fuel machine should be ready to face an inexpensive upstart technology, too. What if the drone is to warfare as the #solar panel is to energy? ...
The good news is that none of these technologies are secrets, and we can buy them much more cheaply than we can buy oil. And, once we have them, we’ll no longer depend on the flow of oil through an indefensible, roughly twenty-one-mile-wide ditch."

#IranUSWar
#environment
#oilandgas
#energy

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-iran-war-is-another-reason-to-quit-oil

Another internet outage in Iran at 12:00 UTC further reduced the small amount of traffic being let out of the country. #IranUSWar #DigitalBlackOutIran‌

Numerous networks impacted.

Podiumsdiskussion mit dem Iran-Experten Dr. Walter Posch von der Landesverteidigungsakademie & der Journalistin, Autorin Solmaz Khorsand Khorsand zum Thema: #Iran #IranRevolution2026‌ #IranUSWar

Moderiert von Univ.Ass. Josef Muehlbauer von der REWI Uni Graz - Thinking Law

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h-bVbaWGSvw