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Business News > Mint Authors > Sune Engel Rasmussen

Sune Engel Rasmussen

ARTICLES BY SUNE ENGEL RASMUSSEN

Rebuilding will be complicated by the interlocking nature of the damage done by attacks aimed at dragging out the country’s road to recovery. (AFP)

Iran’s war-shattered economy means it has an urgent reason to negotiate

6 min read . 16 Apr 2026

Cargo ships near the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump’s mission impossible for allies: Reopening the Strait of Hormuz

5 min read . 05 Apr 2026

Antoine Kassis was found guilty on charges including narco-terrorism conspiracy.

Inside the trans-Atlantic trade in Iranian weapons for Colombian coke

5 min read . 29 Mar 2026

Iraqis hold a portrait of the Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to support his selection as the new Iran's Supreme Leader in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) (AP)

How Iran is building a religious mythology around its new supreme leader

4 min read . 10 Mar 2026

A picture of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed on a screen in Tehran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo: West Asia News Agency via Reuters)

Iran picks supreme leader’s son to run country

4 min read . 09 Mar 2026

A picture of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed on a screen in Tehran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, (via REUTERS)

Iran signals a fight to the end with appointment of Khamenei’s son

4 min read . 09 Mar 2026

Sharjah, one of the cities in the United Arab Emirates that has been targeted as Iran has widened the conflict. Photo: AP

Iran’s high-risk strategy for a no-limits Middle East war

10 min read . 07 Mar 2026

Portraits of Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were carried by mourners in Tehran on Sunday.

Khamenei’s death leaves Iran at historic turning point—without a clear successor

6 min read . 02 Mar 2026

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photo: AFP

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is running out of road

6 min read . 17 Jan 2026

For China, mastery of Arctic travel could yield valuable data about the natural resources awaiting below melting ice caps. (Bloomberg)

China’s push to master the Arctic opens an alarming shortcut to US

8 min read . 30 Dec 2025

In tolerating social freedoms, the regime is granting Iranians concessions that don’t threaten the survival of the system, say analysts and activists. (via REUTERS)

Iran eases social rules amid crises—but crushes dissent

5 min read . 27 Dec 2025

A plane carrying Donald Trump Jr. lands in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Ritzau Scanpix via AP, file)

Trump appointment of Greenland envoy draws angry response from Denmark

3 min read . 22 Dec 2025

If Russia were to launch a full-scale war against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Arctic would be central. (REUTERS)

Inside the West’s race to defend the Arctic

7 min read . 12 Oct 2025

U.S. and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops are flocking to the European Arctic, where international tensions are simmering. (File Photo: AFP)

Very cold war: Brutal Arctic conditions are testing US and allied forces

6 min read . 19 Aug 2025

Iran's resilience against Israeli airstrikes is shaped by its Iran-Iraq War experience, impacting its nuclear stance. (AP)

A defiant Iran draws on the lessons of an earlier war

6 min read . 06 Jul 2025

Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and human-rights activist, during a furlough from prison earlier this year. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Iranian Nobel Laureate says war dealt big blow to fight for democracy

4 min read . 03 Jul 2025

A recent Israeli strike on a building in Tehran. (via REUTERS)

Life in Iran after the strikes: Executions, arrests and paranoia

6 min read . 28 Jun 2025

Israeli strikes target Iran's Revolutionary Guard, risking a power shift to a more hawkish military elite. (via REUTERS)

Iran’s Islamic revolutionary guard poised for more power

6 min read . 20 Jun 2025

Iranian Major Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in Israel’s attack on the Islamic Republic. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters

Israel’s attacks leave Iran’s supreme leader exposed—with no good options

5 min read . 14 Jun 2025

US forces are boosting their presence in Northern Europe, defying Trump's NATO criticism, to deter Russian aggression. (Image: AFP)

The US reinforces Europe’s northern front, fearing war with Russia

5 min read . 27 May 2025