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View More NewsIran will collect crypto payments as transit fees from oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz during the two‑week ceasefire with the U.S., an industry official told FT.Hamid Hosseini, spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, said that crypto-denominated tolls will be charged for fully loaded vessels as the nation seeks to “monitor what goes in and out of the strait to ensure these two weeks aren’t used for transferring weapons.”Hosseini’s comments signal Tehran’s willingness to use cryptocurrency for toll payments, highlighting the expanding real‑world use cases of digital assets in high-stakes geopolitical developments. This isn’t…
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I.Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (Perceval the Welshman, 1978), about a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table, is probably the strangest movie the long-lived (1920–2010) and astonishingly prolific (27 feature films) French director ever made. Rohmer is a specialty taste to begin with; you will either love his work or find yourself bored to tears by his miniaturist—and perhaps too visually pleasing—brand of cinematic realism. The vast bulk of his films explore the moral dilemmas of attractive young moderns in lovely and tranquil upper-middle-class exteriors, as they try to navigate between the things they profess to believe in and the…
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