Alex Younger

Sir Alex, who headed MI6 between 2014 and 2020, enjoyed a career in British intelligence spanning nearly three decades, having joined the service in 1991

White House spars with reporter over Trump threats to commit war crimes in Iran

Trump Warns U.S. Would Hit Iran’s Energy Sites If Talks Fail

The immediate prospects for a diplomatic off-ramp look inauspicious as Washington and Tehran believe that their respective campaigns are putting the other side under sufficient duress to make maximalist demands

Last week, he set a 48-hour deadline to reopen the strait — which nearly 20 percent of the world’s oil is normally transported through — or the U.S. would destroy “various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” He later kicked back that deadline

FOR HALF a century the Middle East’s petro-monarchies have cast themselves as reliable suppliers of low-cost petroleum

The regime also 'understood the significance of the energy war' and 'globalised the conflict' as a 'very good way of putting a direct price on the US'

The regime also 'understood the significance of the energy war' and 'globalised the conflict' as a 'very good way of putting a direct price on the US'