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David Hearst

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Sep 9, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · David Hearst

    South Koreans protest over possible plan to send forces to back US in Hormuz (opens the original)

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    Protests have broken out in South Korea against government proposals to send its forces to back US operations in the Strait of Hormuz. Seoul said on Friday it was considering "contributions" to US security efforts along the strait, and on Tuesday sent what it called a fact-finding mission to the crucial waterway. Iran has already warned that any South Korean deployment would be "regarded as direct support for the party responsible for that aggression and will have serious consequences". Demonstr

  2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · David Hearst

    Trump administration sanctions all Iranian airlines in aviation crackdown (opens the original)

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    The Trump administration on Tuesday announced it is sanctioning 27 Iranian air carriers in a bid to deny the government in Tehran the ability to move "weapons, personnel, and illicit cargo", the Treasury said in a statement. The move is part of Operation Economic Outcast, the expanded sanctions project that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said is meant to choke off Iran's access to the global economy. The US first sanctioned an Iranian commercial airline, Mahan Air, in 2011. "Let this be a warn

  3. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · David Hearst

    Iran threatens South Korean assets if Seoul joins Hormuz mission (opens the original)

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    Iranian academic Mohammad Marandi has warned that Tehran would consider South Korea an enemy and could strike its economic and military interests across the Persian Gulf if Seoul joins the US-led war on Iran. Speaking on Al Mayadeen’s The Grand Standoff, Marandi said South Korea’s involvement in efforts to secure freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz would expose its interests in the region to Iranian retaliation. “If the South Koreans participate in this war against Iran, Iran will

  4. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · David Hearst

    Argentina threatens oil firms with sanctions as Falkland Islands dispute intensifies (opens the original)

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    Argentina has threatened sanctions on oil firms that seek to drill around the Falkland Islands as it continues to up the pressure on the British Overseas Territory. The country's far-right president Javier Milei said in a national address that the "winds of change" favoured Argentina's claim to the islands, which they refer to as Las Malvinas. He cited a threat by US President Donald Trump to change his country's position on the islands over the UK's lack of support for the war on Iran. “Recentl

  5. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · David Hearst

    Exclusive: Blair asked PA to remove 'Palestine' from textbooks, former UK envoy says (opens the original)

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    Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was recently sent by Donald Trump's Board of Peace to ask the Palestinian Authority (PA) to replace any mention of the word "Palestine" in schoolbooks with the Jewish designation of "Samaria", Middle East Eye has heard. Jeremy Greenstock, who was Britain's ambassador to the UN between 1998 and 2003, told MEE that Blair attempted to exert pressure on the PA and said that if it was serious about being seen by the Board of Peace as capable of reaching an agreemen

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