RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has no seat at the Iran ceasefire table, and that may be exactly how Mohammed bin Salman wants it. While the Islamabad talks collapsed and reconvened without a
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DHAHRAN — The physical crude oil market has detached from its financial derivative by $35–49 per barrel, and every major fiscal assessment
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WASHINGTON — The White House declared negotiations with Iran “productive and ongoing” this week even as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reversed
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JEDDAH — Pakistan’s 119,000 Hajj pilgrims are now inside Saudi Arabia’s wartime Makkah cordon, and their physical presence has done what no
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TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader praised his navy on Telegram on April 18 while IRGC gunboats fired on two Indian-flagged tankers in
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The IRGC Just Declared the Entire Persian Gulf a Kill Zone — and Markets Shrugged DHAHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir is heading to Washington carrying Iran’s in-principle agreement to a four-country nuclear monitoring framework —
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude closed at $99.36 on April 18 after IRGC gunboats fired on two Indian-flagged vessels in the Strait of
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on at least two vessels that had received prior IRGC clearance to transit the
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ANTALYA — Turkey closed the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on April 19 without a signed security agreement, a joint communique, or even a
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Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran — the civilian diplomatic institution whose negotiating team was recalled from Islamabad by Zolghadr’s “deviation
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DHAHRAN — South Korea announced it had secured 273 million barrels of crude oil outside the Strait of Hormuz, and every headline
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A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber departs Diego Garcia — the Indian Ocean staging base used for the June 2025 strikes on Fordow,
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NEOM — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has reclassified NEOM as an “independent ecosystem” — a designation that severs the $500 billion
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RIYADH — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on April 18, a day in
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Washington Wants to Pay $20 Billion to Make Iran’s Uranium Disappear — Then Ask Saudi Arabia to Give Up the Same Right
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia enters the final 96 hours before the US-Iran ceasefire expires on April 22 facing three simultaneous exposure vectors
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JEDDAH — Iran fired on Indian oil tankers and lost its largest remaining customer on the same day the American licence that
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ANTALYA — Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh killed the April 20 Islamabad round on Friday morning, telling journalists at the Antalya
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ANTALYA — At the precise hour that Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan sat in a quadrilateral meeting at the Antalya
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Table of Contents Killed on Day One What Happened on the Road to Ghandouriyeh? Who Fired? The Israeli Violations No One Is
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ISLAMABAD — Donald Trump told reporters on April 16 that he would fly to Pakistan to sign an Iran deal — the
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MUSCAT — Two IRGC gunboats fired on a commercial tanker 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman on Friday morning without issuing a
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Strait of Hormuz toll scheme has been operational for 36 days and has collected zero dollars. Sixty transit permits
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps overrode Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s declaration that the Strait of Hormuz was “completely open” for
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