ICYMI - The 125-Year Reason Iran Won't Let Go

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Apr 15, 2026 · 19m

The Strait of Hormuz is thirty kilometres wide and it has held the world hostage before. Not since 1979. Since 1901, when a foreign company was handed three quarters of Iran's land and told to take whatever oil it could find.

What does it feel like when the same argument arrives in a different decade wearing different clothes? The thing being taken changes, from raw crude to territorial leverage, but the logic stays exactly the same. Somewhere between 1901 and today, a country became a mountain fortress that nobody could unlock, and the math of who profits has never really changed.

The…