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Emmanuel Macron said he urged Iran to immediately halt attacks across the Middle East during a phone call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, as escalating military confrontation in the Iran-Israel war continues to destabilize the region and threaten global shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz. File photo of Emmanuel Macron with Masoud Pezeshkian; Via latter In a statement posted on social media after the call, Macron said he asked Pezeshkian to end “unacceptable attacks” carried out by Iran either directly or through regional proxy groups, including operations linked to armed groups in Lebanon and Iraq. The French president said Paris was acting strictly in a defensive capacity to protect its interests, regional partners, and the principle of freedom of navigation in Gulf waters. Macron warned that the unchecked escalation surrounding the Iran war was pushing the region toward wider chaos with long-term consequences for global security and economic stability....

A drone-related incident near Dubai International Airport struck a fuel storage tank late Sunday, and triggered a fire that emergency crews were working to bring under control, according to authorities in the emirate. Authorities later confirmed that flights at Dubai International Airport were temporarily suspended as a precautionary safety measure following the incident. Airport authorities briefly suspended flights at Dubai International Airport as a precaution before gradually resuming limited operations. Flights bound for Dubai are currently holding away from the airport. Via: FlightRadar24 The Dubai Media Office said in a statement that the incident occurred “in the vicinity of Dubai International Airport (DXB)” and affected one of the airport’s fuel tanks. Firefighters from Dubai Civil Defence were deployed immediately and continued efforts to contain the blaze. “No injuries have been reported so far,” the Dubai Media Office said, adding that authorities were taking “...

Donald Trump on Sunday accused Iran of deploying artificial intelligence-generated propaganda to manipulate global coverage of the ongoing Iran-Israel war, rejecting reports circulating online and in some media outlets that suggested damage to U.S. military aircraft and naval assets in the Gulf. File Photo: White Ho use In a lengthy statement posted on social media , Trump alleged that Iran has intensified what he described as a coordinated disinformation campaign during the Iran-Israel conflict, using AI-generated imagery and fabricated battlefield narratives to project military strength while suffering heavy losses from U.S. and Israeli strikes across Iranian territory. “Iran has long been known as a master of media manipulation,” Trump wrote, arguing that recent images and videos circulating online — including purported footage of attacks on American ships and aircraft — were fabricated using artificial intelligence tools designed to mislead global audiences about the war’s trajecto...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman More than two weeks into the Iran war and the clearest record of what this conflict has become is found in Donald Trump’s own words . Read chronologically, his public statements and social media posts do not reveal a coherent war aim so much as they point to a pattern of escalation without restraint, triumphalism without closure, and threats so sweeping that they dissolve the distinction between military coercion and open-ended devastation. What emerges is a head of state normalising the language of civilisational punishment while the global economy convulses, shipping slows in Hormuz, migrants and seafarers die in the Gulf, and ordinary households from South Asia to Europe brace for the price of a conflict they did not choose. File Photo of POTUS Trump; Via: White House The argument for this war was never stable. Even as the administration invoked Iran’s nuclear programme, Trump’s own rhetoric kept widening the battlefi...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman Wars are often measured in missile strikes, territorial advances and diplomatic confrontations but beneath those visible markers lies a quieter human story. The Iran war has begun to expose the vulnerability of the millions of migrant workers, seafarers and civilian employees who sustain the infrastructure of the global economy. Photo of Thai crew from cargo ship Mayuree Naree; Via: Ounka Across the Gulf and wider West Asia, these workers form the backbone of ports, shipping fleets, construction sites, energy facilities and service industries. They power the logistics networks that keep energy flowing and goods moving across continents. When conflict erupts, they are often the first to feel the consequences even though they have no role in the political decisions that lead to war. In recent days, the widening conflict has produced a growing list of casualties and disruptions affecting this largely invisible workforce. As...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman Wars often reshape borders but it is very likely that the Iran war may reshape the global energy map. The escalating conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel, and the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical oil transit route, has triggered a rapid reconfiguration of energy supply chains that could outlast the war itself. Governments are scrambling to secure alternative crude sources, shipping routes are being recalculated and energy diplomacy is accelerating across continents. Representational Image/File Photo: Current Report on X What is emerging is the early stages of a structural shift in how the world moves energy. As IndianRepublic.in reported earlier in its extensive coverage of the Hormuz crisis , roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil normally flows through the Strait of Hormuz, making the waterway one of the most important arteries of the global economy.  Even partial disr...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman For decades, globalization promised efficiency, speed and seamless connectivity but the Iran war is finally revealing its hidden vulnerability. What began as a military confrontation in West Asia has quickly evolved into a system-wide stress test for global supply chains, and exposed how deeply the modern economy depends on a handful of fragile logistical corridors, energy routes and transport networks. File Photo/Representational Image: MEA India From oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz to air routes over the Gulf and cargo shipping across the Indian Ocean, the conflict has already rippled through the arteries of global trade. The disruption is not limited to energy markets. Airlines are rerouting flights, shipping companies are recalculating risk premiums, ports are adjusting cargo operations and governments are activating emergency coordination mechanisms to prevent shortages of essential commodities. As Ind...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman The war now unfolding across Iran, Israel and the wider Gulf may be remembered not only for its geopolitical consequences but also for becoming one of the clearest demonstrations yet of multi-domain warfare in the drone age. Missiles, drones, cyber disruptions, maritime attacks, electronic warfare and strategic strikes on energy infrastructure are all unfolding simultaneously across a vast operational theatre stretching from Iran to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Representational Image: U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II’s receive fuel in-flight; Via: US Central Command Unlike earlier regional conflicts, the battlefield is no longer confined to front lines or airspace. It now spans civilian ports, oil terminals, airports, shipping lanes and digital networks—a dispersed and interconnected environment where strategic targets can be hit from hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away. As IndianRepublic....

✍️ Written by Saket Suman The widening war between Iran, the United States and Israel has revived a strategic reality the world once thought it had moved beyond. Energy infrastructure has once again become a battlefield. Oil terminals, refineries, ports, pipelines and shipping lanes are increasingly being drawn into the conflict, transforming energy systems into strategic targets. What is unfolding in the Gulf today is the re-emergence of what can best be described as energy warfare, where the destruction or disruption of fuel supplies becomes as consequential as battlefield victories. Image Via Iran 24 on X The implications are global. Oil prices, shipping insurance costs and energy supply routes are already being reshaped by the conflict. Governments from Asia to Europe are scrambling to secure supplies, diversify import sources and stabilize domestic fuel markets. As IndianRepublic.in reported earlier in its extensive coverage of the ...