Trump threatens to seize Kharg Island, then calls it all off: the rollercoaster war over Iran's oil

Brazil

4 SOURCES

Markets and energy-security lens · 4 of 7 countries

Brasília reads 'like Venezuela' as the illustration of the North's predatory power over producer nations

United States

4 SOURCES

Head-on Washington-Tehran clash · 2 of 7 countries

Washington swings between the Kharg seizure threat and a deal announcement, reading the sequence as a domestically driven gamble

France

incl. 1 state outlet

4 SOURCES

Paris dissects the mechanics of the squeeze and ties the deal announcement to the Evian G7 calendar it is hosting

India

4 SOURCES

Markets and energy-security lens · 4 of 7 countries

New Delhi reads the Kharg threat first through its oil bill, in non-aligned pragmatism attentive to its energy security

Iran

incl. 1 state outlet

3 SOURCES

Head-on Washington-Tehran clash · 2 of 7 countries

Tehran denounces a US 'miscalculation' and receives the Venezuela parallel as a confession of neocolonial resource predation

Italy

3 SOURCES

Markets and energy-security lens · 4 of 7 countries

Rome focuses on the tempo of the reversal and the promised reopening of Hormuz, read as Mediterranean energy relief

Pakistan

3 SOURCES

Markets and energy-security lens · 4 of 7 countries

Islamabad relays alarm and skepticism over the Kharg threat, exposed to the shockwaves of an energy crisis it endures