Who says the world is impossible to predict these days? Two things have just happened that we could have seen a mile off. Events in the Middle East have followed the exact script for "what happens if ...

Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones not only at Israel but also across the Gulf. Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Missiles slammed into interceptors over Doha and Abu ...

Oil prices fall in early trading in Asia as the US president warns Iran against disrupting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Already devastated by the violent crackdowns that killed thousands of protesters in January, Iranians who oppose the Islamic ...

The US president says he will hit Iran "twenty times harder" if it blocks the Strait of Hormuz, as people in Tehran say the city had its heaviest night of strikes.

The spiral up can be of little surprise of course when millions of barrels of crude oil are shut in to the Gulf, and when most Gulf countries are now - at best - reporting a slowing of their ...