TEHRAN — Iran’s most visible response to President Trump’s May 16, 2026 nuclear ultimatum is a year-old television interview with a man who has been dead for seventy-eight days. Ali Shamkhani —
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TEHRAN — On May 14, 2026, Vice President JD Vance told reporters at the White House that the United States is “making
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Saudi Arabia’s Co-Belligerent Trap Was Built With Its Own Bombs A Royal Saudi Air Force F-15SA Eagle departs on full afterburner —
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Table of Contents The Strike Near Limah The Floating Armoury Off Fujairah Why Did the IRGC Hit an Indian Ship? What Araghchi
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DUBAI — A vessel anchored 38 nautical miles northeast of Fujairah was boarded and seized by what the UK Maritime Trade Operations
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BEIJING — Xi Jinping’s endorsement that “the Strait of Hormuz must remain open” at the May 14 summit with Donald Trump is
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BEIJING/DUBAI — A Chinese-owned supertanker carrying nearly two million barrels of Iraqi crude oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz on May
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BEIJING — A COSCO supertanker crossed the Larak Island threshold in the Strait of Hormuz on May 13, toll-free and fully loaded,
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KUWAIT CITY — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X on May 13 that Kuwait had “unlawfully attacked an Iranian boat”
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority is not a negotiating position. It is a functioning customs bureaucracy — with a domain
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DOHA — Donald Trump landed in Qatar on May 14 carrying $243.5 billion in signed economic deals and a $38 billion commitment
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia conducted covert airstrikes on Iranian territory in late March 2026 as a confirmed participant in Operation Epic Fury,
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared a 500-kilometer operational crescent on May 12, stretching from Jask in the Gulf of
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait summoned Iran’s ambassador on May 13 to deliver a formal protest over the armed infiltration of Bubiyan Island
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RIYADH — On May 13, 2026, as Donald Trump landed in Riyadh to formalize a $142 billion arms package alongside the political
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RIYADH — The last time an American president sat across from a Syrian head of state was March 26, 2000, when Bill
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TEHRAN — Iran is actively preparing for a resumption of hostilities with the United States and Israel while simultaneously seeking to dictate
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{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Iran cannot tell the world where it put its own mines, and that single fact has made every
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WASHINGTON — The central problem in the Iran nuclear negotiations is no longer enrichment thresholds, moratorium durations, or third-country custodianship. It is
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WASHINGTON — Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 12 that America’s munitions shortages have been “foolishly and unhelpfully
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia launched covert air strikes against targets on Iranian soil in late March 2026, according to a Reuters exclusive
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait arrested four Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers who infiltrated Bubiyan Island by sea on May 1, opening fire on
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NEW DELHI — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will not attend the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New Delhi on May 14–15,
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CHANGED: True {“content”: “ ISLAMABAD u2014 Saudi Arabia committed more than eight billion dollars in deposits, facility extensions, and joint financial packages
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WASHINGTON — The United States fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles during Operation Epic Fury, burned through roughly 80 percent of
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