Articles

Linking the Events from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Strait of Hormuz

Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

On 4 July 2019, the United Kingdom’s Royal Marines seized an Iranian oil tanker, Grace I in the Strait of Gibraltar on the charges that Iran was breaching the European Union’s (EU) sanctions by supplying 2 million barrel of oil to a Syrian govern....

July 30, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , shipping in Strait of Hormuz , Oil tanker movement in Gulf , UK-Iran ship seizing

Crisis in the Inflammable Gulf

Amb K P Fabian Commentary

We are witnessing a rapidly aggravating crisis that can result in the outbreak of hostilities with consequences, unintended, uncontrollable and possibly frightful for the region and the rest of the world. We have not seen any serious effort on the p....

July 25, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Commentary , US-Iran-UK confrontation , shipping in Strait of Hormuz , Gulf crisis