WASHINGTON — Senator Tom Cotton sent a formal letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday demanding immediate sanctions on Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, its officers, and any foreign entity that
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NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia has recruited 137 countries to demand that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It needs two more
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser has given the oil market a date: if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen
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RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan praised President Donald Trump on May 20 for giving “negotiations with Iran additional
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ABU DHABI — The consensus framing of the Saudi-UAE relationship in May 2026 treats the two countries as allies under strain —
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund raised $7 billion in May in its largest-ever single bond sale, drawing an orderbook of
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JEDDAH — The most consequential foreign-policy document issued against Saudi Arabia in 2026 is not a sanctions package, a UN resolution, or
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RIYADH — Donald Trump told CBS News on May 21 that he was “an hour away” from ordering fresh strikes on Iran
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ANTALYA — The International Institute for Strategic Studies, the London-based defence think tank, published a formal analysis in May 2026 identifying Turkey,
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on May 20 for his second visit in seven days, carrying the
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund spent $5.3 billion building LIV Golf into the most expensive diplomatic instrument in sporting history,
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Changed: True -> False LONDON — Britain concluded a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council on 20 May 2026 —
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MUSCAT — On May 13, a delegation led by Abbas Baqerpour, director general for International Legal Affairs at Iran’s Foreign Ministry, sat
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Changed: True -> False {“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on May 20 publicly endorsed President Donald
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Changed: True -> False {“content”: “ ISLAMABAD u2014 The United States transmitted a new draft peace agreement to Iran on May 21
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RIYADH — The ceasefire Mohammed bin Salman spent fifty-two days building — which persuaded Donald Trump to cancel strikes on May 19,
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WASHINGTON — The US-Saudi 123 Agreement framework, formalized during President Trump’s May 13 visit to Riyadh, contains no prohibition on Saudi uranium
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RIYADH — US President Donald Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on May 20 that he was “in no hurry” to
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RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan broke nine weeks of deliberate diplomatic ambiguity on Tuesday, issuing a public statement
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MBS Has Forty-Eight Hours to Deliver Iran JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has spoken to his Iranian counterpart six times in
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{“content”: “ TEHRAN u2014 Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority opened its official X account on May 18 u2014 the same day three
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman called Donald Trump on May 18 and stopped an American airstrike on Iran scheduled for the following
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Global Oil Stocks Falling at Record 8.5 Million Barrels a Day as IEA Warns Structural Deficit Is Beyond Diplomacy DHAHRAN — The
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JEDDAH — Iran has placed 30,000 nationals inside Saudi Arabia for Hajj 2026, entering through the Jadidat Arar border crossing from Iraq
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KUWAIT CITY — Six armed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel landed on Bubiyan Island on May 1, slipping ashore from a rented
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