The Saudi oil pipeline the world didn’t know it needed

“Were it not for this seamless Hormuz bypass, there’d be even more desperation in Trump’s calls for allied help,” adds Krane, referring to Donald Trump. On Saturday the US president issued Iran with a 48-hour ultimatum to unblock Hormuz or face attacks on its power plants. Tehran responded with a threat to strike US and Israeli infrastructure — including energy assets — in the region.“The East-West pipeline is looking like a strategic masterstroke right now,” says Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for ...