This is The Guardian.
Today, what the war on Iran means for the world's supply of food.
Five weeks into a war that the U.S. Promised it would have settled by now.
If your children are watching, be warned, the president did not use polite language.
And President Trump is rattled.
Quote, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran.
There will be nothing like it.
Open the fucking strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.
Just watch.
The strait of Hormuz is crucial to the world's steady supply of gas and oil.
And the Iranians forcing its partial closure has sent financial markets into a tailspin.
Energy is just one part of this very global story.
What about food?
So we 're looking at roughly 30% of the nitrate fertilizer,
roughly 20% of the phosphate fertilizer, a lot of the sulfur as well, around 50% of that.
The Guardian columnist and campaigner, George Monbiot, is ringing the alarm bell.
So this is a very substantial chunk of the world's fertilizer production and export is coming from the Gulf nations,
principally because a lot of that is being produced from natural gas and other hydrocarbon products.
Modern food production, crops, the farms, requires an enormous amount of fertiliser.
And a good chunk of the world's supply, it comes from the Gulf, shipped out through the Strait of Hormuz.