Closure of Strait of Hormuz is ‘greatest global energy security threat in history,’ warns IEA chief

“We are facing the greatest global energy security threat in history”: The bleak warning comes from one of the world’s leading energy market watchdogs. In an interview with Le Monde on Friday, March 20, Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), bluntly summed up the scale of the crisis triggered by the war in the Middle East. In just…