RIYADH — The fourteen published points of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding do more than exclude Saudi Arabia. They resolve every operational

VIENNA — Saudi Arabia’s entire public contribution to the nuclear track that will define Iran’s enrichment capacity for a generation is a

ÉVIAN — Donald Trump told the world’s press on June 17 that Iran can keep its ballistic missiles because Saudi Arabia has

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s June 8 sanctions designations targeting Iran’s Hormuz fee collection apparatus — the Hormozgan Provincial Command of the

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told reporters at the G7 summit in Évian, France, on June 16 that he will send the

RIYADH — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy transmitted a radio warning to USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) during mine clearance

VIENNA — The framework that the Trump administration will formalize at Geneva on June 19 was already audited, three days before the

WASHINGTON — Three days before JD Vance is scheduled to sign a nuclear memorandum of understanding in Geneva, President Donald Trump stood

PARIS — France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Canada issued a joint statement at Évian on June 16 calling the US-Iran

The Strait of Hormuz as captured by NASA’s MODIS instrument in December 2020. The narrow passage between Iran (top) and the Musandam

TEHRAN — Hours after Iran signed the Hormuz MOU on June 15, the IRGC Navy radioed a US destroyer conducting mine-clearance operations

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron convened a dedicated Arab-leaders session on the Strait of Hormuz at the G7 summit in Evian

DUBAI — Saudi Arabia signed two documents in twenty-five days that cannot both be true. The first, dated May 21, 2026, was