TEHRAN — Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, warned in an Al Jazeera interview on May 26 that any renewed American attack on Iran would produce a response “much
MoreVIENNA — Austria’s Directorate for State Protection and Intelligence published an annual threat assessment concluding that Iran’s nuclear weapons programme is “well
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is hidden at an undisclosed location, reachable only through “a labyrinth of couriers,” and even
MoreTEHRAN — On May 24, a senior White House official told CBS News that Iran had provided “assurances — verbal and in
MoreRIYADH — The Phase 1 framework between Washington and Tehran, confirmed in detail by Axios on May 24, contains a clause that
MoreRIYADH — Donald Trump told his negotiators on May 24 not to rush into a deal with Iran because “time is on
MoreRIYADH — A senior White House official told CBS News on Saturday that Iran had “agreed in principle to dispose of highly
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s IRGC-linked Fars News Agency announced on May 24 that “tankers have been suspended from passing through the Strait of
MoreWASHINGTON — The largest American naval deployment to the Persian Gulf since 1991 is not leaving, and the reason should alarm Riyadh
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MoreRIYADH — A clause in the draft US-Iran memorandum of understanding requiring an end to the war in Lebanon has emerged as
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MoreQeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz — the 38-kilometre-wide chokepoint through which approximately 21 million barrels of oil and 120 billion
MoreRIYADH — Donald Trump declared an agreement with Iran “largely negotiated” on Friday, confirming a framework that extends the ceasefire, reopens the
MoreMBS joined a seven-nation call urging Trump to accept. The terms include Iranian enrichment rights Riyadh does not possess, a Hormuz reopening
MoreWASHINGTON — Senator Tom Cotton sent a formal letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday demanding immediate sanctions on Iran’s Persian
MoreWASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said from New Delhi on May 23 that Iran could accept a deal to
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s terminal missile defense over the Hajj corridor has fallen to between 80 and 150 PAC-3 MSE interceptors —
MoreRIYADH — Asim Munir landed in Tehran on Friday evening to negotiate with the state his own defence treaty obliges him to
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Q1 2026 GDP release looks like vindication for Vision 2030: non-oil activity up 2.8% year-on-year while the oil
MoreROME — The fifth round of US-Iran nuclear negotiations concluded at the Omani Embassy in Rome’s Camilluccia neighbourhood on May 23, 2026,
MoreDHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s OPEC+ production quota for June 2026 is 10.291 million barrels per day. In April, the kingdom produced 6.879
MoreNEOM — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has formally halted all construction on The Line, the 170-kilometre mirrored linear city that served
MoreDOHA — A Qatari negotiating team arrived in Tehran on Friday to help close the remaining gaps in the Hormuz memorandum of
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority on May 22 published a jurisdiction map anchoring its claimed maritime management zone to two
MoreRIYADH — Al-Arabiya, the Saudi state-aligned broadcaster majority-owned by the Public Investment Fund, on May 22 published what it described as the
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