DHAHRAN — The last tanker to exit the Strait of Hormuz before the war departed on February 28, and JPMorgan calculates that its cargo reached its final destination on approximately April 20
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LONDON — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on the French-flagged container ship CMA CGM Everglade in the Strait of Hormuz on
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has no seat at the Iran ceasefire table, and that may be exactly how Mohammed bin Salman wants
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MUSCAT — The guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance fired on and boarded the Iranian-flagged container ship TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman on
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JEDDAH — Mohammed bin Salman called Donald Trump the day before the April 16 ceasefire announcement and told him a Lebanon truce
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Table of Contents Saudi Arabia Told Washington to End the Blockade The Yanbu Bottleneck Can the Houthis Actually Close Bab el-Mandeb? Iran’s
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TEHRAN — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf did not make a threat on Saturday night. He published a precondition. In a one-hour address on
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ISLAMABAD — President Donald Trump told Fox News on April 19 that Iran will get “blown up” if it refuses to sign
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TEHRAN — On April 18, the captain of the Indian-flagged tanker Sanmar Herald did something no maritime officer had done in the
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JEDDAH — The first international pilgrims for Hajj 2026 landed in Makkah and Madinah on April 18-19 under the Makkah Route Initiative,
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ANTALYA — Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan spent April 18 in two conversations that, taken together, amount to a diplomatic architecture:
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CENTCOM Deploys A-10 Warthogs and Apaches Over Hormuz, Turns Back 23 Vessels Before Ceasefire Expiry
Table of Contents Why Is CENTCOM Flying A-10 Warthogs Over the Strait of Hormuz? What Does the A-10 Deployment Signal to IRGC
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JEDDAH — Iran’s response to the ceasefire framework arrived in Saudi Arabia on April 16 — hand-delivered by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz
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JEDDAH — Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah on April 15-16 for a two-hour
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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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