Luke Baker
@BakerLuke
Int'l affairs, EU, Middle East. Media and geopolitics @portlandcomms. Ex @Reuters -- Jerusalem, Paris, Brussels, London, Jo'burg, Rome, Baghdad, etc.
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At a pre-war rate of 140 ships a day passing through the Strait of Hormuz, a large percentage of them very large crude carriers transporting 2 million barrels of oil, this could deliver Iran close to $100 billion a year if it were fully implemented
🚨 FT scoop: Iran demands $1 per barrel of oil passing through Strait of Hormuz, wants to be paid in cryptocurrencyView quoted post on X
A quick thread (with a moral) about something that happened 23 years ago in Iraq.
This week in 2003, US-led forces invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein (...). I was a journalist with Reuters at the time, embedded with a combat engineering unit ofthe US 3rd Infantry Division
This week in 2003, US-led forces invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein (...). I was a journalist with Reuters at the time, embedded with a combat engineering unit ofthe US 3rd Infantry Division
Iran has agreed that it will never have a nuclear weapon, Trump says
This is an utterly bonkers story.
Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story | The Times of Israel timesofisrael.com/gamblers-tryin…
Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story | The Times of Israel timesofisrael.com/gamblers-tryin…
www.timesofisrael.com Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile... Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account