RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will spend seventy-two hours hosting the most consequential diplomatic sequence of the Iran war — and will not

{“content”: “ TEHRAN u2014 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called IRGC strikes on the UAE “madness” on May 4, requested an urgent meeting

RIYADH — Hours after US Navy destroyers traded fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz — strikes Donald Trump dismissed

CHANGED {“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Saudi Arabia stopped Project Freedom on May 5, killed it inside thirty-six hours, and watched on May

CHANGED {“content”: “ WASHINGTON u2014 The 14-point memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran, reported by Axios on May 6,

TEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf branded a US-drafted memorandum of understanding as “Operation Fauxios” on May 7, publicly mocking

PARIS — Iran has struck two CMA CGM vessels in 17 days — escalating from a projectile hit on the 15,300-TEU Everglade

ANKARA — Four foreign ministers, three formal meetings in ten weeks, one nuclear-armed signatory, and a combined 1.9 million troops under arms

DHAHRAN — The memo of understanding being negotiated between Washington and Tehran offers a thirty-day window to resolve the conditions under which

RIYADH — Abbas Araghchi flew to Beijing on Tuesday not to negotiate but to dictate. By the time Donald Trump steps onto

{“content”: “ WASHINGTON u2014 The United States has offered Iran a one-page, 14-point memorandum of understanding that accepts what Washington spent three