The resumption of hostilities between the US and Iran has put further pressure on energy supplies
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MAJID ASGARIPOUR
So the world is back where it started in the US-Iran war. After a short lived ceasefire, both sides are bombing each other. The flow of crude oil is disrupted and global supply is likely to remain below demand for a long time to come, the IMF thinks.
Soon after Donald Trump attacked Iran, I had written about how, in history, we find that from time to time eccentric people come to power and change the world forever by their unilateral actions. But there has never been a time when three such people were at it simultaneously.
The three are Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. These three guys don’t seem to care a fig about what they do to the world and their own countries. They…