Tag: mosaic defence

Mosaddegh, Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, addresses the United Nations Security Council in October 1951, arguing Iran's right to nationalise its own oil. Two years later he was overthrown in a CIA and MI6 coup.

The Monster They Made (Part 2)

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The CIA paid a clergyman to destroy Iran’s democracy in 1953. The baksheesh passed through three brothers, sons of a British agent, to a Nazi-adjacent Islamist who had already tried to murder the Shah. Seventy years later, America is bombing the theocracy it built. The history is declassified. It has been sitting there for decades.

Aerial view of oil tankers gridlocked in the Strait of Hormuz at dusk, black smoke rising from a distant refinery against an orange sky.

Persian Stalemate

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Thirty days in, Operation Epic Fury has achieved something genuinely historic: it has made the world less safe, energy more expensive, American alliances more threadbare, Iran more unified, and the US military more fractured — all simultaneously. Pete Hegseth is praying for Armageddon. His troops are filing conscientious objector applications. And in the Strait of Hormuz, the tankers stay put. Urban Wronski on the stalemate that no ground invasion can break and no prayer can win.