Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 5, 2018

Ted Regencia & Alia Chughtai, Al Jazeera: What's at stake if trading at Strait of Hormuz is disrupted?

Iran hints that it could retaliate against US sanctions by disrupting trade at world's busiest oil transit lane.

When Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed the US efforts to block all of Iran's crude oil exports, he neither mentioned the Strait of Hormuz, nor the actions Tehran could take to disrupt trade at the world's busiest oil transit chokepoint, which translates to 30 percent of seaborne global oil exports every day.

Rouhani's response was nonetheless interpreted as a threat to the narrow waterway located between Iran and Oman, where at least 18.5 million barrels of oil were transported every day in 2016, based on a US energy department report.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 5, 2018

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The Rial's Fall Shakes Tehran -- Saeed Ghasseminejad, RCW

Does Israel want Syria's Bashar al-Assad in power? -- Zena Tahhan, Al Jazeera

Eagle-meets-Bear and the Syria tug-of-war -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times

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How a US-China trade war could hurt us all -- Karishma Vaswani, BBC

Facebook tries to silence Myanmar’s hateful monks -- Lee Short, Asia times

Pompeo Is Back in North Korea—This Is What He Should Do -- Thomas Cynkin, National Interest

India's Battle of Nightmares -- Sadanand Dhume, Times of India

Why Is America Still Defending Europe? -- Hugh White, National Interest

A Ukrainian economist on the perils of Trump's Putin policy -- Igor Kryvetskyi, Reuters

Can Nicaragua’s Military Prevent a Civil War? -- Orlando J. Pérez, Foreign Affairs

Why Mexico’s historic elections may bring about big change -- Jordi Díez, The Conversation

After his big win, how will Mexico’s AMLO handle Trump? -- Andrés Martinez, Reuters