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Saudi Arabia’s refusal to allow the United States to use Saudi airspace and a key Saudi air base for “Project Freedom” forced President Donald Trump to pause the U.S. operation to escort vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
On 1 May, the U.S. and Israel launched Project Freedom, a mission to guide stranded ships out of the Gulf. But by 5 May, President Donald Trump announced that the mission would be paused temporarily.
The American-Iranian negotiations are marked by uncertainty, ambiguity, and stalemate. Why is that the case, and what could it lead to?
From George Washington’s insistence on republican modesty to Donald Trump’s public assault on institutional restraint, the presidency has moved from symbol of constitutional virtue to engine of democratic decay.
The Strait of Hormuz is the narrow maritime passage linking the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. It is the single most important oil chokepoint in the world.
As war with Iran drives the weaponization of the Hormuz Strait, Donald Trump’s personalized foreign policy is testing whether populism can still deliver strategic gains—or only global instability.
Ambassador Mootaz Ahmadein Khalil argues that the conflict is not fundamentally about Iran’s nuclear program or missiles, but about regime change, regional order, and the struggle to shape the postwar balance of power across the Gulf and the wider Middle East.
As a fragile truce holds, Washington reinforces its naval and amphibious presence, widening its strategic options in the event of renewed confrontation with Iran.
As war powers votes loom and funding requests face resistance, lawmakers grapple with the constitutional limits and economic costs of an expanding U.S. war with Iran.
Iran has not tried to win command of the skies in the conventional sense. Instead, it has pursued to deny the United States and Israel the effortless use of airpower by targeting bases, tankers, sensors, command systems, and the political stamina of the coalition arrayed against it.