Category: International Law

Interview: US-Iran: What the Blockade Threats Mean for Oil and Freight Markets

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Channel News Asia/CNA,Singapore, July 22, 2026: Iran has shut the Strait of Hormuz and The Houthis have just declared a blockade of Bab al-Mandeb. Two of the world’s most critical shipping chokepoints — squeezed at the same time. Saudi Arabia’s workaround, routing oil through the Red Sea, may now be closing off too. A look at the compounding economic risks and how markets are pricing in rerouted supply chains, soaring freight premiums, and broader inflation risks.

Quoted: Why There’s a Call for Boycotting “The Odyssey”

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Institute for Public Accuracy News Release, July 20, 2026, quotes Zunes:
“In accepting generous subsidies from the Moroccan regime, the film’s producers have provided legitimacy to the illegal occupation. It would be the equivalent of filming in Israeli or Russian-occupied territories in collaboration with those governments.  Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights groups have ranked Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara as among the most politically repressed nations in the world. Since any protest within the occupied territory is not tolerated, it is imperative that global civil society mobilize against this injustice.” 

4 Talks: Iran, Israel, Palestine

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    * June 14, 2026, First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco on “U.S. Policy towards Israel/Palestine: How We Can Change It”
    * May 23, 2026, “Universities’ Acquiescence to Trump Administration Policies and Implications for Academic Freedom,” for the Peace & Justice Studies Association
    * From a seminar organized by the Arab Organization for Human Rights in which I made a short presentation on U.S. support for the repressive Sisi regime in Egypt
     * April 22, 2026, a conversation with Robert Malley, a key figure in recent Democratic administrations involved in negotiations with Iran and with Israel & Palestine, and Daniel Zoughbie of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California-Berkeley

Interview: Washington funds worsening repression and political prisoners in Egypt

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Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK, May 23, 2026
8 min. clip of Zunes and full seminar, 55 min.
Repression in Egypt is not happening in isolation, but is sustained through Washington’s continuous political and military support. Successive U.S. administrations have shielded the Egyptian government from accountability despite mass arrests, torture allegations, deaths in custody, and the imprisonment of tens of thousands of political prisoners… every waiver, arms deal, and public embrace of Sisi sends a message that repression will carry no consequences.

Has Senator Cruz been Misinformed About Western Sahara or What?

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Counterpunch, April 27, 2026: by Bill Fletcher Jr. – Stephen Zunes.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), along with Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rick Scott R-FL), have introduced a bill targeting what they call the “Iranian Regime’s Polisario Front,” designating that popular North African nationalist movement as a “terrorist organization”… Since the early 1970s, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro (Frente Polisario) has led a fight initially for independence from Spain and subsequently for freedom from Morocco’s efforts to forcibly annex the territory.  The Polisario is a moderate secular movement whose leadership is democratically elected by refugees…