MUSCAT — Four days before Donald Trump lands in Riyadh to sign a civil nuclear energy deal that does not expressly forbid Saudi uranium enrichment, Iran’s foreign minister tabled a proposal in
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TEHRAN — Brigadier General Seyyed Majid Mousavi, commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, declared on Saturday evening that “the missiles and aerospace
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TEHRAN — When Mohammad Mokhber, identified across Mehr News Agency’s May 8 broadcast as an adviser to Supreme Leader Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei,
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s economy grew 2.8% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, according to flash estimates published by the General
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MOSCOW — On May 8, Sergey Lavrov called Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan and proposed restoring Hormuz navigation to its pre-late-February
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RIYADH — The GCC spent 45 years as a security club where every member needed protection and none could provide it —
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WASHINGTON — On the same morning Marco Rubio’s deadline for Iran’s response to the 14-point MOU expired, the National Council of Resistance
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MANAMA — Iran did not threaten to close the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. It threatened something more useful: to keep the
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DUBAI — A 71-square-kilometre oil slick first detected by Copernicus Sentinel satellites on May 6 west of Iran’s Kharg Island terminal continued
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Table of Contents The Caspian Corridor: Factory to Port in 2,400 Kilometres What Is Russia Sending Through the Caspian? Why Can’t the
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{“content”: “ TEHRAN u2014 On the morning of May 9, 2026, Iran spoke with two voices that pointed in opposite directions, and
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{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Four days before Donald Trump lands in the Saudi capital with a $142 billion arms deal in his
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s war with Iran has accomplished what a decade of Vision 2030 presentations could not: it has made the
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{“content”: “ nnnn n TEHRAN u2014 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published new maritime control rules for the Strait of Hormuz and
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DUBAI — On May 8, 2026 — the day Iran’s formal response to the 14-point ceasefire memorandum of understanding was due to
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DHAHRAN — Aramco is about to report its strongest quarter in a year — a $29 billion profit that looks like vindication
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will spend seventy-two hours hosting the most consequential diplomatic sequence of the Iran war — and will not
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{“content”: “ TEHRAN u2014 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called IRGC strikes on the UAE “madness” on May 4, requested an urgent meeting
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Brent Crude Swings $12 as Trump Calls CENTCOM Strikes a ‘Love Tap’ DHAHRAN — Brent crude whipped through a $12 intraday range
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ABU DHABI — Iran fired two ballistic missiles and three drones at the United Arab Emirates on May 8, the same day
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has approximately 400 PAC-3 MSE interceptors remaining — 14% of its pre-war stockpile — and no new rounds
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RIYADH — Hours after US Navy destroyers traded fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz — strikes Donald Trump dismissed
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CHANGED {“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Saudi Arabia stopped Project Freedom on May 5, killed it inside thirty-six hours, and watched on May
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia and Kuwait formally lifted restrictions on US military use of their bases and airspace on May 7-8, 2026,
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CHANGED {“content”: “ WASHINGTON u2014 The 14-point memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran, reported by Axios on May 6,
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CHANGED {“content”: “ DUBAI u2014 Gen. Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NBC News this week that
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