Middle East Crisis

Strait of Hormuz
Trump reverses – will not impose tariffs on the Strait of Hormuz

Donald Trump has changed his mind. He will not impose a 20 percent tariff on all commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, he writes on Truth Social.

The tariffs will instead be replaced by “trade and investment agreements that the Gulf states will conclude with the United States,” he writes.

“These investments will be massive, but at the same time extremely good for them and their future.”

The blockade of Iranian ports will remain, however, writes Trump. 

Israel vs. Iran
Mossad’s secret plan: Recruit Iran’s ex-president and make him the country’s new leader

For several years, Israel’s intelligence service Mossad tried to recruit Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and prepare him for a future takeover of power in Iran. This is stated by Iranian, Israeli and American officials for the New York Times and Haaretz.

The contacts are said to have taken place through secret meetings abroad, including at a climate conference in the Hungarian capital Budapest in 2024. The then head of Mossad, David Barnea, is said to have personally traveled to Budapest to meet Ahmadinejad, who was the president of Iran from 2005 to 2013.

In connection with the outbreak of the war between the United States and Iran in February, Mossad abducted Ahmadinejad with the aim of installing him as the new leader in a regime change. But the plan failed. According to Iranian sources, the former president became “upset” and left the hiding place where Mossad had placed him.

Ahmadinejad is now being held under house arrest by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, according to several high-ranking Iranian officials.

The fact that Mossad tried to recruit Ahmadinejad in particular is explained by the fact that he has begun to distance himself from the current regime in Iran and has begun to see himself as a possible reform leader, according to the information.