WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said in a White House podcast interview published Wednesday that Iran has “already agreed they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon” and that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
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RIYADH — On June 1, Donald Trump told ABC News a deal with Iran could happen “over the next week,” and on
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President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the US-Saudi investment forum in Riyadh, May 13, 2025 — the same day
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TEHRAN — Iran is preparing a formal rejection of the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding proposal, Reuters reported on June 2, citing
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TEHRAN — Iran’s president may not have resigned, but the institution he nominally leads has already been emptied of the authority that
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WASHINGTON — Trump announced a Lebanon ceasefire on June 1, 2026. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz denied it existed within hours. Iran’s
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WASHINGTON — Iran suspended all mediator-channel negotiations with the United States, fired two ballistic missiles at an American air base in Kuwait,
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TEHRAN — Iran suspended all US-mediated MOU negotiations on June 1 and declared through its IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency that the resistance
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RIYADH — Iran allowed the first inbound commercial vessel through the Strait of Hormuz since the February 28 closure to dock at
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait signed a $1.02 billion NASAMS contract with Raytheon on May 26, a deal that will clear the US
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{“content”: “ WASHINGTON u2014 On May 27, the White House called Iran’s version of the memorandum of understanding “a complete fabrication.” Iran’s
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Central Command struck Iranian radar installations and drone command-and-control sites at Goruk and on Qeshm Island over the weekend,
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NEOM — PIF’s Board of Directors, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, approved the fund’s 2026-2030 strategy on April 15, 2026,
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WASHINGTON — The amended MOU text that Donald Trump sent back to Iran on May 31 cannot be read by the one
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency reported on May 31, 2026, that Iran has accumulated a “record” stockpile of military-grade enriched
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RIYADH — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told American evangelical leader Mike Evans in a private meeting — attended by Saudi Foreign
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MUSCAT — Oman’s Maritime Security Centre issued an alert on May 30 after a floating object suspected to be a naval mine
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency has not verified Iran’s near-weapons-grade uranium stockpile in ninety-three days, and President Trump is demanding
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WASHINGTON — Trump on Saturday demanded edits to the Iran MOU specifying “how the U.S. gets the material and the timing” for
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump privately assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a final Iran deal will require full dismantlement of
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RIYADH — Pete Hegseth told the Shangri-La Dialogue on Friday that America wants “partners, not protectorates” and praised the Gulf States as
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NEOM — DataVolt committed $5 billion to Oxagon in February 2025, when the Strait of Hormuz was carrying ninety-five tanker transits a
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco earned $18.6 billion in free cash flow last quarter and owes $21.89 billion in dividends on June 9
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KUWAIT — A Kuwaiti PAC-3 battery intercepted an Iranian Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile over Ali Al Salem Air Base on Friday, but
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