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Persian Gulf oil exporters are scrambling to reroute their crude from ports to pipelines to keep the world running and keep their oil money flowing and fueling their economies. Sanction waivers abound. Venezuela’s oil output has shot up to 1.25 million barrels daily. The world of energy after the end of the war in the Middle East will be a very different one from what we’ve become accustomed to over the last five years. When the United States and Israel first fired on Iran, the overwhelming assumption was that first, Iran would never close the Strait of Hormuz, and two, after the closure became a fact, that it would only last for a few days, maybe a couple of weeks tops. Then, when it became abundantly clear that there is no expiry date on the Strait closure, oil exporters finally started making contingency plans. News about pipeline plans in the Persian Gulf includes the UAE, which eyes an operational pipeline to the port of Fujairah by next year, demonstrating just how urgent the alternative route is to one of the largest oil exporters in the Middle East. The UAE’s exit from OPEC highlighted the urgency as well, even though it was seen as a pivot to more energy policy independence. It was, but it can also be interpreted as a move to make sure the oil flows. Related: Oil Markets Stop Believing Trump’s Peace Narrative For years, the UAE has been working to boost its crude oil production capacity to 5 million barrels per day by 2027. To that end, the UAE had consistently demanded that it should be allowed in the OPEC and OPEC+ production deals to use more of its growing spare capacity—and it has indeed been allowed to do so. The country, alongside Saudi Arabia, is one of the few in the region—and the world—that held spare production capacity before the Middle East war began. Saudi Arabia itself is a case in point: the kingdom has been using its East-West pipeline to bypass the Hormuz blockade, becoming an example of actual contingency planning and oil flow diversification in case of trouble in the neighborhood. Now, even Iraq is talking about boosting its pipeline capacity up to threefold—and doing it within three months. Crude oil production from Iraq’s southern fields has plunged by 70% since the start of the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran, with the average production at 1.3 million barrels per day, compared with 4.3 million bpd before the war began. This makes OPEC’s number-two perhaps the most severely affected oil producer in the Gulf, because it is almost entirely reliant on the Strait of Hormuz for its exports. “The legacy of the crisis will result in the construction of infrastructure to bypass the Strait of Hormuz,” Hamad Hussain, commodities economist at Capital Economics, told the Wall Street Journal. “The genie is out of the bottle given that the longstanding threat of Iran effectively closing the strait has now materialized.” Many observers seem to believe that even when the war ends, one way or another, the oil landscape will change for good, with exporters investing in what the Wall Street Journal described as “an export network with multiple exits”—a real-life demonstration of the principle of distributing eggs to multiple baskets. As summed up by ADNOC’s head and the UAE’s energy minister, Sultan al-Jaber, “Energy security is no longer just about your ability to continue to produce. “It is about routes, access, storage and redundancy.” Meanwhile, as warnings about a severe oil supply crunch multiply and get louder, some see relief on the horizon. Kpler, specifically, recently described a scenario in which Venezuelan, Iranian, and Russian oil all return to the market in greater volumes—which is already happening. Venezuela, Kpler reported, is already producing and exporting 1.25 million barrels daily after the United States toppled the Maduro government and lifted sanctions so American companies could return to the country. This could rise to 1.5 million barrels daily by the end of the year, with Kpler analyst Naveen Das noting that since Venezuela is producing extra-heavy, high-sulfur crude, its recovering production would be in direct competition with Iranian and Russian heavy sour barrels, pressuring prices. A forecast about weaker prices in less than a year has become an exception rather than the rule it was at the start of this year, before the war began, but it is a possibility. While there is no sign of any reconsideration of EU sanctions on Russian energy, the U.S. has issued waivers on crude and has extended these more than once, and this, per Kpler’s Das, “eliminated the psychological and compliance barriers for Asian buyers.” As for Iran, the Kpler analysts see the chances of a peace deal rise in sync with the pressure on the U.S. economy resulting from the crisis-fueled energy price inflation. Essentially, the argument appears to be that the U.S. administration would have to do something to reverse the price trends, and that something will very likely involve sanction relief on Iranian crude. Again, it is worth noting this is still a distant prospect as President Trump appears intent on staying the current course. By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com More Top Reads From Oilprice.com
On the floor of Portmeirion’s factory in Staffordshire, staff are hard at work as clays are moulded, glazed and fired – an intricate process requiring precision and specialist skills honed over years of practice – to manufacture the company’s array of tableware. Portmeirion, a homeware brand founded in 1960 that employs 433 people, is based in Stoke-on-Trent, at the heart of British ceramics. The centuries-old craft is so integral to the area’s identity that the six federated towns that make up the Staffordshire city are known as the Potteries. “All my family were in the industry,” says Sam Pearce, the company’s chief operating officer. “It’s a really important part of the heritage of the city.” The UK ceramics sector employs 20,000 people, half of them in the West Midlands, and is regarded as an indispensable to the economy. Not only does it manufacture household essentials such as crockery, bathroom fittings, tiles and bricks, but also defence, security and technology components ranging from microchips to missiles. But this national heirloom is starting to crack as it suffers the blows of international competition, rising labour expenses and the soaring cost of energy, which leapt after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has again been driven up by the US-Israeli conflict with Iran. View image in fullscreen Sam Pearce, Portmeirion’s chief operating officer. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian Illustrious names in the region have gone under or are teetering on the brink. In February last year, Royal Stafford went bust after nearly 200 years and Heraldic Pottery closed the same month. The world-renowned Wedgwood was forced to freeze production at its factory for 90 days, only restarting in January, and Derbyshire-based Denby, established in 1809, called in administrators on 31 March, with the group blaming escalating employment and energy costs. “The sector as such has been under huge pressure – there’s no denying that,” says Michael Scheepers, Portmeirion’s recently appointed chief executive. “I think everybody who has seen recent news of companies struggling and brands disappearing over time can see how it has impacted the overall sector.” The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said the industry underpinned “our economic resilience” when she announced a £120m support package to support energy efficiency, decarbonisation and long-term competitiveness last month. The trade body Ceramics UK will work with civil servants on the design and implementation of the scheme. View image in fullscreen The Portmeirion homeware brand was founded in 1960. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian Rob Flello, the chief executive of Ceramics UK, says rising energy costs are central to the financial difficulties. Production processes require prolonged firing temperatures typically above 1,000C, but the cost of gas to power furnaces has soared, with UK month-ahead prices hovering around 118p a therm – 50% up on the 78.50p the day before the Iran war began. However, he argues high prices have been compounded by the government’s target to reach net zero emissions by 2050. That policy, championed by the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, came under fire in Tony Blair’s wide-ranging attack on Keir Starmer’s government last month. The former prime minister urged the government to “prioritise cheaper energy and electrification over net zero and use what is left of our North Sea oil and gas” – an intervention criticised as “bizarre” by experts in the face of energy and climate crises. However, it appears to resonate with some ceramics-sector leaders. “It’s no good us being zero carbon [in the] UK in 2030 if that’s because we don’t manufacture anything in the UK,” Flello says. He wants the government to “decarbonise sensibly rather than decarbonising by deindustrialisation, which is the path we’re on at the moment”. View image in fullscreen Spode Blue Italian designs in the showroom at the Portmeirion factory. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian “Energy is much much more expensive in the UK than in competitor countries,” he adds. “Our brickmakers pay effectively a carbon tax under the UK emissions trading scheme. Imports from Turkey, China and India don’t have to pay carbon tax. So the odds are very much stacked against British industry.” Alex Patrick-Smith, the executive chair of Dreadnought Tiles, a brick and clay roof tile manufacturer based in the West Midlands, agrees, saying Blair is “pushing the right buttons” and the current targets on net zero are “not realistic”. “I’m a great supporter of decarbonising. I do see global warming as a big threat,” he says, but adds: “We’ve lost a lot of our supply chain in our industry. The number of businesses that are left are dwindling in our industry and it just comes to a point where you’ve just got to stop. “This is strategically important for the country … If things get really tough in the geopolitical world and you can’t repair your bridges because you can’t make engineering bricks in this country any more, you’re expecting to import them from overseas. In doing so, all you’re doing is exporting your carbon to somewhere else – it’s not improving the global situation.” Flello says the ceramics industry is committed to decarbonising and has spent £750m on initiatives to do so, but it is inherently energy hungry and therefore one of the hardest to wean off fossil fuels. Patrick-Smith says his company has spent “hundreds of thousands” on energy efficiencies, including kiln upgrades and a heat recovery scheme. However, he says many of those investments were “eye-wateringly expensive and the returns are just not there”. In the hopes of addressing rocketing energy costs, all three industry leaders called on the government to extend eligibility to the British Industry Supercharger and British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS) – which provide relief from electricity costs for firms in areas such as steel and chemicals. When Reeves beefed up the BICS scheme in April in response to Iran war pressures, expanding the number of firms covered to 10,000, ceramics companies asked why they had been left out. Nearly 90,000 people have since signed a petition asking for the sector to be included. A government spokesperson said: “Manufacturing industries like ceramics are vital to the UK’s success and essential for growth, but we recognise the challenges they are facing, including on the cost of energy.” They highlighted the £120m support already announced for the sector, adding: “We continue to work closely with the industry to ensure we’re doing what we can to help them through tough times.” Ceramics are not only fundamental the UK’s economic resilience, the industry leaders argue, but also to the heritage and economy of the West Midlands. Flello, who was a Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent North from 2005 to 2017, says: “There was a saying locally that you either work in the pits or the pots. Pretty much everybody you knew worked either in one of those two. View image in fullscreen The UK ceramics sector employs 20,000 people. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian “Over the last 50, 60 years, the industry has dramatically contracted – rather than every town now having a brickworks there are probably about 36 across the UK.” Yet despite such decline, the industry still has passionate backers. The heritage brand Moorcroft returned to production in September after being saved from liquidation by the grandson of its founder. And this week rumours were swirling of a possible rescue for Denby, after Sky News reported that Home Bargains, one of the UK’s biggest homeware retailers, was pursuing an acquisition for its name and other assets. Scheepers says Portmeirion is determined to increase its production in the UK: “If we have clear, targeted support, I think that would be invaluable.” Flello also says that, despite the challenges, there are glimmers of hope. In particular, he says Reeves’s support package could be the springboard to signal “the industry can stop declining and start growing again”. He says: “There is definitely hope and with the £120m that’s probably the greatest cause of optimism. It all depends now on how the programme is put together. It does need some other things coming in behind it, but this is really a positive development.” Additional reporting Jasper Jolly
Iran is already preparing for the perilous transition from wartime unity to a fractious peace marked by hyperinflation, a 10% contraction in the economy, power cuts and calls for a triumphalist government to end its unprecedented hunting down of dissent. With peace not yet secured, the debates within the regime about Iran’s future are only just starting to emerge but its rulers are clearly thinking about how after surviving the war, they can survive the peace. Open discussions on channels such as Azad are heard on alternative future postwar directions for the country. There are advocates of greater openness, and others such as Saeed Ajorlou, close to the Iranian negotiating team, who say, now the myth of a weak Iran has been shattered in western minds, the country must seek development through autonomy. Much will depend on whether Donald Trump is really willing to lift the economic blockade on Iran by reducing sanctions and ending asset freezes, but few Iranian economists think the relief will be more than a small fraction of the estimated $270bn (£200bn) losses inflicted on the economy including its infrastructure, schools, energy, steelworks and housing. Iranian commentators such as Fuad Habibi, a sociology professor at the University of Kurdistan, are wary of terms such as social collapse but are very open that the conditions that led to the bloody protests in January have not been solved, and indeed made worse by war. He said: “Economic crises and livelihood dissatisfaction have clearly increased, even without precise statistics. We are witnessing a rare increase in prices due to the naval blockade and the consequences of the war. The internet blockade has also led to direct or indirect unemployment of at least 2 million. “Since we do not have a society in which protests are expressed through official channels such as parties, guilds and unions, you will always be surprised.” The current so-called cohesion is due to the existence of an external factor because, in the face of bombing and destruction by an enemy, internal solidarity is created. But as Hegel said, the moment a front wins is the moment a split begins within it. If a deal does happen to end the war, the Iranian economy would enter peacetime facing food inflation at its highest since the second world war, with the annual food inflation in May at 130% according to the Statistical Centre of Iran. Inflation for meat and chicken reached 176%. Health experts even warn of an increase in malnutrition, osteoporosis and growth stunting, due to the way in which Iranians are having to eradicate dairy products from their diet. The former communications minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi wrote on his Telegram channel: “Trump and Netanyahu’s next bomb may not be gunpowder; it may be inflation. The battlefield is the people’s table, housing rent, and … gentlemen in charge, are you aware of the accumulation of dissatisfaction? Is the country’s economic defence ready, or, God forbid, will we be surprised again?” View image in fullscreen Masoud Pezeshkian, right, meets with members of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce in Tehran, Iran. The Iranian president appears to have been deputed to keep the domestic wheels of government working. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images The president, Masoud Pezeshkian, appears to have been deputed to keep the domestic wheels of government working, and has been repeatedly warning of hard times ahead, and the need to maintain social cohesion. The ministry of energy was forced to deny controlled two-hour blackouts would start as early as next month despite the damage to infrastructure. Arash Najafi, the head of the energy commission of the Iranian chamber of commerce, had warned this week: “To maintain production, people must prepare themselves for two hours of daily shutdowns.” Incentives such as 30% price discounts are being offered to those who cut their energy consumption by 10%. The sense of hardship is starting to emerge as internet censorship is slowly lifted, a decision so controversial that it has led to hardliners in the parliament trying to impeach the communications minister. Rahim Ghomeishi, a political activist, wrote this week: “We had been thrown out of a broken boat. Fear of bloodthirsty whales, fear of terrible waves had taken over our entire being. Now that we have returned to the boat, we cannot be content just because we have been rescued. “Poverty was not supposed to become normal in the country. We were not supposed to wake up to news of executions every morning. Most people were not supposed to be strangers unable to decide about their own lives and destinies, the most important concern in life was not supposed to be filling our stomachs.” Although much of the domestic political debate turns on the wisdom of negotiating with America, or an arcane battle about how long Iran should renounce a currently theoretical right to enrich uranium, many believe the true prize from the war will be the end of the economic straitjacket. But the sums likely to be involved are not a bonanza. Albert Baghzian, a professor of economics at the University of Tehran, told Khabar Online: “In an economy of the size of Iran’s economy, with this level of efficiency in the policymaking sector, it is wrong to think that the influx of $12bn or $24bn will lead to a major opening. In our economy, figures higher than this have been brought in many times, but because we had not planned properly, resources were wasted, we ended up where we are today.” But debates about how the economy could be reorganised and corruption tackled come up against the power of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The senior Iranian economist Mousa Ghaninejad hinted at the problem this week: “The main issue in the Iranian economy is the dominance of command-based governance over rule-based governance, meaning that decisions are made in many cases not based on stable and transparent rules, but rather on short-term expediency and political considerations.” Ever since the January protests, the repression has grown worse, reflected in new espionage laws, asset seizures of dissidents, executions and denunciations of dissidents in the nightly rallies. The national parliament is still banned from meetings in person. This drove the Islamic National Unity party, one of the leading reformist parties, this week to publish an open version of a letter sent privately to Pezeshkian urging him to stop executions, which only fuel internal divisions, do not meet the fundamental requirements for a fair trial and “tarnish the country’s image at a time of moral superiority during the war”. At least 22 political prisoners were executed between 17 March and 27 April. But the chances of pluralism are slim. It took the hospitalisation this week of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former prime minister, who has been under house arrest since 2011 and whose home was bombed in the war, for the president to feel emboldened to intervene with the security forces. Extraordinarily, Trump seems to be content to coexist with this enemy. He said this week he had a good call with the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, and he would be honoured to meet Khamenei, the new supreme leader. “In some circles he has a good reputation,” Trump mused. The IRGC and political leadership showed in the period between the 10-day war of 2025 and the renewed war in February 2026 that they could reorganise for battle. But the test is imminent whether they can reorganise for peace by addressing the problems, domestic and international, that hold the country back. If, after the end of the war, the economic blockade of Iran continues and there is no opening in international relations for the entry of capital, technology, raw materials and resources necessary for reconstruction, the devastation will not be repaired, but will become part of everyday life. The destruction will turn from a temporary incident into a permanent social condition, a situation in which people are forced to live in a context of scarcity, exhaustion and instability.
When the anniversary comes, later this month, few will be in the mood to look back. All the political talk will be of the Makerfield byelection, of the future of this government and this prime minister. And yet, it would be wise to reflect on what happened on 23 June 2016 – if only because the choices Keir Starmer and his would-be successors face, indeed the entire political and cultural landscape we now inhabit, are informed or were shaped by that event. We are living in Brexit Britain. A useful prompt comes from the upcoming two-part BBC series Brexit: A Very British Civil War, made by the master documentarian Norma Percy. Speaking to (nearly) every key player, it brings it all back – the red bus, “take back control”, the pantomime river battle of Nigel Farage v Bob Geldof. It reminds you of things some may have forgotten, including the extent to which this whole thing came about as a wheeze, a clever tactical ploy, plotted by the careless people who were then running the country. In 2013, David Cameron and George Osborne sought to placate noisy Eurosceptics in their own ranks by promising an in/out referendum after the next election – a pledge they assumed they’d never have to honour because they were sure they’d fail to win an outright majority in parliament, whereupon they would cheerfully trade the promise away as a concession to the Lib Dems. As if that were not cavalier enough, Britain’s place in Europe became dependent on the soap-opera dynamics of the Notting Hill set: it was all tennis in Regent’s Park and weekends at Chequers, Michael (Gove) letting down Dave and what will Sam (Cameron) think of Boris. Johnson insists he didn’t “give a fuck about being prime minister,” while Osborne begs to differ: “It was nothing to do with the EU, Britain’s place in the world. It was Game of Thrones. That’s what Boris Johnson was playing. And he could see the Iron Throne right there about to be vacated.” This stuff was all-consuming at the time – and yet what was at stake, as these Etonians worked out their schoolboy rivalries, was nothing less than the destiny of the UK. That recklessness with the futures of 70m people remains unforgivable – and the guilt belongs to Cameron and Osborne almost as much as to Gove and Johnson. More important than the origin story, however, is the legacy. We see that around us every day. Start with the economy. The remain campaign was mocked at the time as “project fear”, spreading gloom by warning that Britain outside the EU would be poorer, to the tune of 6% of GDP. Yet here we are a decade later and, if anything, remain was not pessimistic enough. The drop in GDP is now estimated to be between 6% and 8%, with investment down by as much as 18%. Trade is on course to be 15% less than it would have been had we stayed in the EU, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, while a staggering 85% of those who import or export goods report problems that they didn’t have before. Remainers said that Brexit would be a slow puncture, as the air was let out of the British economy. So it has proved, except it’s not been that slow. Brexit’s other legacy, besides upending the old Labour-Tory duopoly, is not measurable in pounds or percentages but is just as real. It is visible in the coarsening and darkening of the national conversation, in the aggression and even hatred that, previously pushed to the margins, now loiter in the centre of the public square. This week the leader of the party that brought us Brexit warned of civil war. It would be wrong to cast the referendum as the sole cause of this shift – Brexit was, in part, a symptom of the change – and we can all see the role social media and the likes of Elon Musk have played in degrading the discourse. But Brexit both accelerated and intensified that process. An insouciance towards the facts – recall that “post-truth” was Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year for 2016 – was an enduring gift of the leave campaign. Percy’s documentary lays bare the knowing dishonesty of the claim that the UK was sending £350m to the EU every week, a gross figure – in every sense – that did not include the more than £80m that came back as a rebate or the money the EU spent in the UK. Johnson’s adviser Dominic Cummings would later brag that “The point of using that really was to try and drive the remain campaign and people running it crazy” – deliberately tangling up his opponents in dry factchecking over stats, while he could press the voters’ hotter buttons. “Love that bus,” an unrepentant Johnson says now, describing it as “the bus of truth”. In 2026, we wade through a swamp of lies and disinformation all the time, especially online – but it was the referendum that drove us into that swamp and at top speed. The currency of Cummings, Farage and the rest was fear and loathing. We see again Farage’s “breaking point” poster, with its brown-skinned men apparently massing on our borders, and the wholly bogus Vote Leave ad suggesting that 76 million Turks would soon be able to come into Britain via the EU, leaving a trail of dirty footprints behind them. These were racist and xenophobic messages, barely veiled – and they worked. So it’s hardly a surprise that, a decade later, we have the man who could well be in Downing Street after the next election – and who, tellingly, speaks of Brexit only rarely these days – complaining of “anti-white prejudice” and calling for “pure cold rage” after the murder of a young white man, even as that man’s parents pleaded for his death not to be used to turn Britons against each other. Restore Britain, a party that is endorsed by unabashed white supremacists and neo-Nazis, is on the ballot in Makerfield and might win 10% of the vote. There has always been a far right in Britain, but it used to be confined to the fringes. Brexit invited it in. By dividing us down the middle, leave or remain, Brexit polarised our politics in a new, starker way. Looking back, it’s clear that remain could never win a contest like that because it was never really about British membership of the EU. In effect, the question became: “Do you want things to remain as they are, or would you like to leave the current reality of your life for something better?” In that contest, there was only ever going to be one winner. What’s more, the remain cause was doomed by timing. Had the vote come now, in a world menaced by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the folly of standing alone, apart from our nearest neighbours, would be clear. But Trump was a mere candidate in June 2016, and though Crimea had been seized two years earlier, Russia’s full-blown assault on Ukraine still lay in the future. The geopolitical lunacy of Brexit was not as obvious then as it is now. It’s a tragic tale – a once-confident nation making such a fearful, self-harming decision. Our economy, our politics, our daily lives in 2026 – all of it bears the imprint of that calamitous error. But this story is not over. The BBC documentary confirms the sheer determination that enabled the Brexiters to turn a lost, eccentric cause into a winning movement. All told, it took the leavers 41 years, from 1975 to 2016, to reverse our first vote on EU entry. Rejoin is already the settled preference of a majority of Britons, 56% to 35% at the most recent count – and besides, politics moves twice as fast now. If that calculation is right, and it will take 20 years to overturn the verdict of 2016, we should not lose heart – after all, we’re halfway there.
أعلنت <a href="https://www.alyaum.com/articles/6663427/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A4%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%88%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86" target="_blank">وزارة الشؤون الإسلامية</a> والدعوة والإرشاد اكتمال مغادرة <a href="https://www.alyaum.com/articles/6664985/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85/%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86" target="_blank">ضيوف برنامج خادم الحرمين</a> الشريفين للحج والعمرة والزيارة، المستضافين من 104 دول، بعد أن منّ الله عليهم بأداء <a href="https://www.alyaum.com/articles/6664898/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85/%D8%A8%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A8%D9%84-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AC" target="_blank">مناسك الحج</a> وزيارة المسجد النبوي الشريف والسلام على رسول الله -صلّى الله عليه وسلّم -، في أجواء إيمانية سادها الأمن والطمأنينة.<br />وجرت <a href="https://www.alyaum.com/articles/6664985/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85/%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86" target="_blank">مغادرة الضيوف</a> عبر مطار الأمير محمد بن عبدالعزيز الدولي بالمدينة المنورة وفق منظومة خدمية اتسمت بالانسيابية والتنظيم، وذلك عقب رحلة إيمانية متكاملة اشتملت على برامج ثقافية متنوعة وزيارات ميدانية للمعالم الإسلامية والتاريخية في مكة المكرمة والمدينة المنورة، ضمن منظومة متكاملة من الخدمات والرعاية وفرتها الوزارة تنفيذًا لتوجيهات القيادة الرشيدة أيدها الله.<h2>عناية واهتمام المملكة بالضيوف</h2>وأعرب ضيوف البرنامج عن بالغ شكرهم وامتنانهم لخادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك سلمان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود، ولصاحب السمو الملكي الأمير محمد بن سلمان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود ولي العهد رئيس مجلس الوزراء -حفظهما الله-، على ما وجدوه من عناية واهتمام وحفاوة كريمة مكّنتهم من أداء مناسك الحج بكل يسر وراحة.<br />وشددوا على أن القيادة الرشيدة تسعى دائمًا إلى ترسيخ معاني الأخوة الإسلامية من خلال دعم المسلمين ومساندتهم وتلمّس احتياجاتهم.<br /> <h2>تنظيم متقن وخدمات متكاملة</h2>وأكد الضيوف أن ما لمسوه من تنظيم متقن وخدمات متكاملة يعكس الجهود الكبيرة التي تبذلها المملكة العربية السعودية في خدمة الإسلام والمسلمين ورعاية ضيوف الرحمن.<br />وأشادوا بالدور الذي تؤديه وزارة الشؤون الإسلامية والدعوة والإرشاد، في تقديم أرقى الخدمات التوعوية والتنظيمية، وحسن الضيافة والرعاية طوال فترة استضافتهم، داعين الله أن يحفظ المملكة وقيادتها، وأن يديم عليها نعمة الأمن والاستقرار.
Killing time playing pool at the West Rhyl youth club, friends Sienna, 19, and Jake, 26, are unanimous when asked what a tour of the north Wales seaside town should look like. “The first place I’d show anyone is ‘Crackhead Circle’,” Sienna says. The small public garden behind the town hall and a paved area by the closed home bargain store Wilko in the adjacent high street host several strung-out characters on a cold February afternoon. Police cars crawl through the area every 15 minutes or so as part of Project Renew, a year-long crackdown on gang activity and drugs. On the seafront, a row of Victorian hotels look out over the milky-green Irish Sea, but their glamour has long faded; the dilapidated buildings now serve as emergency accommodation for the council. Sienna waves at a group of people gathered on the steps of the Westminster hotel as she walks past. Her family moved around a lot before coming to Rhyl a few years ago. They lived at the hotel when they arrived. View image in fullscreen Sienna and Jake in one of Rhyl’s amusement arcades. ‘My mates who have jobs are all working part-time,’ she says She is a gifted athlete, but a basketball injury that required major surgery on her leg interfered with her education, pursuing sports and entering the world of work. Q&A What is the Against the tide series? Show Over the next year, the Against the Tide project from the Guardian’s Seascape team will be reporting on the lives of young people in coastal communities across England and Wales. Young people in many of England's coastal towns are disproportionately likely to face poverty, poor housing, lower educational attainment and employment opportunities than their peers in equivalent inland areas. In the most deprived coastal towns they can be left to struggle with crumbling and stripped-back public services and transport that limit their life choices. For the next 12 months, accompanied by the documentary photographer Polly Braden, we will travel up and down the country to port towns, seaside resorts and former fishing villages to ask 16- to 25-year-olds to tell us about their lives and how they feel about the places they live. By putting their voices at the front and centre of our reporting, we want to examine what kind of changes they need to build the futures they want for themselves. Was this helpful? Thank you for your feedback. “It has been difficult to settle down here,” she says. “I don’t think it’s that dangerous, but you have to be careful by the bus station.” Rhyl West has topped deprivation tables in Wales for decades. Drugs and violence are significant problems in the once elegant holiday town; the ward has a crime rate of 197 for every 1,000 people – about 2.5 times the average for Wales. The violent crime rate is 88 for every 1,000, or more than double Wales’ average. View image in fullscreen Donna and Chris, both youth workers, talking to young people in the town centre about what opportunities exist in the resort The town’s young people, like so many others in coastal communities in England and Wales, leave school and often find themselves faced with few opportunities for work and little chance of finding somewhere affordable to live. “My mates who have jobs are all working part-time in shops or deliveries or tourism,” says Sienna. “Almost no one can afford to move out from their parents and get their own place. They can’t afford to leave either.” double quotation mark Our issue in Rhyl is getting people into work. Many young people lack the basics Melanie Evans, Working Denbighshire Sienna has a fiance in Northern Ireland but she does not have the money to see him very often. “We haven’t figured out how we can be together yet.” But there are tentative signs that the tide may finally be turning for Rhyl. Project Renew is working – in January, North Wales police said crime was down 14% on a year ago – and everyone the Guardian met agreed there is less drug use on the street. Years of construction work on the promenade finally finished last summer, the nearby Queen’s Market food hall, waterpark and cinema have all been recently revamped, and a neighbourhood board has been put together to decide how to spend millions allocated through the government’s Pride in Place funding. View image in fullscreen The Westminster hotel, where Sienna and her family lived for more than a year after moving to Rhyl. Several of the town’s old hotels now serve as temporary council accommodation Pride in Place, Labour’s answer to the Conservatives’ levelling up strategy, has awarded hundreds of places, many of them coastal, with £20m. The proviso is that local people, the MP, the council, businesses and community organisations must all work together on how best to spend it. Gill German, MP for Clwyd North, is keen that young people in Rhyl are involved in that process. “The youth service consulted 600 young people about what they need,” she says. “They [the young people] still don’t think the beach belongs to them – they think it’s for tourists – so we need to try to make sure they start feeling the benefits of living by the sea and those wellbeing factors [associated with that].” double quotation mark If you keep doing the same thing, you’ll keep getting the same results. We needed to do something different Melanie Evans, Working Denbighshire Researchers from University College London recently travelled up and down the English coast talking to local people for their Coastal Youth Life Chances project and concluded that one of the things that would make a difference to young people in seaside communities would be to include them in planning and decision-making. “We’ve managed to get more young people on Our Rhyl [the Pride in Place board],” says German. “Hopefully that will start connecting them to the growing opportunities [in Rhyl].” Rhyl is unusual in that it is youthful in comparison to most UK coastal towns. It is also an outlier in that the unemployment rate in Denbighshire is 4.8%, lower than the UK average of 5.2%, even though coastal areas tend to have more people out of work. “Our issue in Rhyl is getting people into work,” says Melanie Evans, of Working Denbighshire. “Many young people lack the basics, such as knowing how to talk to people in a workplace or an office, or how to dress. Those are skills we are teaching.” In 2017, Working Denbighshire consolidated more than a dozen funding streams from the Welsh government and Westminster into one pool, making it simpler to coordinate services and channel money to where it is needed most. View image in fullscreen Old photographs of Rhyl in its heyday, when it was a thriving resort for visitors from Merseyside The results are clear. In 2021, Project Barod was launched – Barod means “ready” in Welsh – offering one-to-one mentoring support in helping find work or training, workshops to help build confidence and skills, such as cooking classes and beach clean-ups, as well as classes in reading, writing and maths. When participants are ready, they can access subsidised work experience, and the project also supports people struggling to hold down a job, and those who want to retrain. double quotation mark It’s tough working with short-term funding … That lack of certainty makes it harder because young people can’t rely on us Jay McGuinness “Our thinking was: if you’re going to keep doing the same thing, you’re going to keep getting the same results,” says Evans. “We needed to do something different to break the cycle of poverty.” The number of people in education or training after support from Working Denbighshire in the first half of the 2025-26 financial year was 163, up 233% on the department’s target of 70, with 38% of those helped aged 16 to 24, by far the biggest demographic group. By his own admission, Luke, 19, did not enjoy school, and had no idea what he wanted to do when he left. After quitting a job he hated at a clothes shop, he was referred to Barod by the jobcentre. Over the past year the programme has helped him study for a roofing qualification and find work as an apprentice. View image in fullscreen Florence and another trainee flanking Steve Baxendale. The baker was teaching them how to make pizzas in a scheme run by Project Barod View image in fullscreen ‘Learning something new gives me a sense of accomplishment,’ says 25-year-old Florence “I’m still very shy. Talking to people and paperwork and exams and stuff can be overwhelming,” he says. “I never imagined I would be doing this though. Eventually, I want to run my own business and work for myself.” At a Barod pizza-making class at Use Your Loaf, a community bakery, the small group are being shown different ways to stretch and toss dough by the baker, Steve Baxendale. Florence, 25, cracks a shy smile as she throws the thin circle in the air, specks of flour spotting her glasses and apron. Health issues have prevented her from applying to university yet, although a degree in cognitive science is still the goal. “I’ve been going to workshops like these for a couple of years now,” she says. “They help with confidence. View image in fullscreen Sienna and Jake are regulars at Rhyl’s boxing club. She says it’s a highlight of her week and is now thinking of training to becoming a youth or social worker “Making something or learning something new gives me a sense of accomplishment, and it’s sometimes easier to tackle the things I need to do when I feel I’ve already done something right.” For all of Rhyl’s recent successes, some teenagers and young people are still falling through the cracks. Jay McGuinness, a social worker who trains Sienna and Jake at the Rhyl Youth Boxing Club, says one part of the job is walking around the town centre in the early evening and getting to know the young people hanging out there. The aim is to build enough trust that they might then engage with the youth centre. “We’re a non-profit, we’re not run by the council, and it’s real
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في تطور خطير للتوترات الإقليمية، أبلغت السعودية إيران بعدم استهدافها مع التحذير من رد محتمل، وذلك استمرارًا للضربات رغم الاعتذار الإيراني. ومع مخاطر تحول الصراع إلى حرب استنزاف، تتدخل الصين بإرسال مبعوث خاص للشرق الأوسط للوساطة بين الأطراف، وسط تحليلات مصورة لتداعيات الحرب.
تشهد الأسواق العالمية توترًا متصاعدًا بسبب إغلاق مصافي التكرير في الخليج والغارات على منشآت النفط في طهران التي تسببت في أمطار سوداء، مما دفع أسعار النفط للارتفاع ووضع الاحتياطي الفيدرالي في مأزق مع تراجع سوق العمل، ورغم ذلك صعدت الأسهم 99 نقطة لتتجاوز المؤشرات 10,930 نقطة، مع توقعات بعدم العودة للوضع الطبيعي قريباً.
شهدت العلاقات الاقتصادية بين المملكة العربية السعودية والجمهورية العربية السورية نقلة نوعية بتوقيع حزمة من الاتفاقيات الاستثمارية الضخمة بقيمة مليارات الدولارات. تهدف هذه الصفقات إلى تعزيز الاقتصاد السوري ودعم جهود إعادة الإعمار، وتشمل مشاريع حيوية مثل إطلاق شركة طيران مشتركة بين البلدين، ومشروع اتصالات ضخم بقيمة مليار دولار، مما يعكس التزام السعودية بدعم الاستقرار الاقتصادي في سوريا وفتح آفاق واسعة للتعاون التجاري والاستثماري المشترك.
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