which in 1951 blockaded exports from the Abadan refinery at the head of the Gulf in response to the Iranian government’s decision to nationalize the country’s oil industry. The motive was purely financial. In 1933 Britain, in the shape of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., a forerunner of today’s BP, had won a lopsided oil concession from the Iranian

While the strait is, in the words of the US Energy Information Administration, “the world’s most important oil transit choke point” — about a fifth of the world’s total petroleum liquids consumption passes through it — the two main oil producers, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, are not without alternative routes to world markets for their pro

Hard-line Iranian lawmaker Hamid Rasaee over the weekend charged that there was no point in remaining in the NPT since it had failed to protect Iran’s nuclear sites from attacks. Fellow hard-line legislator Mohammad Mannan weighed in, announcing that a high-priority bill would be submitted to the parliament to push ahead with the withdrawal. Desp

Israel’s coordinated drone and aerial strike against Iran in the early morning hours of June 13, 2025, attributed officially by Operation Rising Lion, was a significant escalation of the decades-long covert war between the two countries The strikes hit over 100 locations, reports said, including Natanz and Fordow nuclear enrichment plants, variou

What then, are the common characteristics of these two electronics giants in developing the elderly care industry? According to analysis and summaries by researchers at ANBOUND, they can be mainly categorized into three key aspects. First, both companies focus on high-end services. Unlike public elderly care, which is more inclusive and universal,