Washington, May 20 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that the United States was “an hour away” from launching military action against Iran before regional partners urged him to pause, as he defended his administration’s hardline stance against Tehran acquiring a nuclear weapon.Speaking to reporters during a visit to the construction site of a new White House ballroom and security complex, Trump said Gulf allies had asked for additional time for diplomacy.“I was an hour away from maki…
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Washington, April 13 (IANS) Republican Indian American politician Nikki Haley said the US was right to walk away from Iran talks, backing President Donald Trump’s blockade plan and warning Tehran was using the Strait of Hormuz to “hold the global economy hostage.”Negotiations between Washington and Tehran had failed to make progress, with both sides entering discussions far apart. “The US had a 15 point plan. Iran had a 10 point plan. They really were miles apart,” she told CNN in an i…
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) American billionaire and investor Ray Dalio has said that the worst and most consequential phase of the Iran conflict is still to come, warning that a climactic “final battle” for control of the Strait of Hormuz will determine not just the outcome of the current war but the long-term credibility of American power and the stability of the dollar-led financial order that underpins it.Founder of Bridgewater Associates, Dalio on X shared an article and highlighted all part…
New York, March 31 (IANS) A broker for US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth explored a multimillion-dollar investment in defence stocks just weeks before a US-Israel strike on Iran.The broker at Morgan Stanley approached BlackRock in February about allocating funds into a defence-focused ETF tied to contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Such companies typically benefit from rising military spending amid geopolitical tensions and military activity, Xinhua news agency reported quotin…
Washington, Feb 1 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that Iran is negotiating with the United States.”The plan is that (Iran is) talking to us, and we’ll see if we can do something. Otherwise, we’ll see what happens,” Trump told a Fox News correspondent.He added that “the last time they negotiated, we had to take out their nuclear. It didn’t work, you know. Then we took it out a different way, and we’ll see what happens.””We have a big fleet heading out there, bigger than we had — and still …