RIYADH — On April 7, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies co-sponsored a UN Security Council resolution on the Strait of Hormuz that drew eleven votes in favor, two vetoes from Russia
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Table of Contents The Broadcast Before the Delivery What Did Iran Actually Demand? The $270 Billion Reparations Trap Hormuz Sovereignty and the
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MUSCAT — The fourth round of US-Iran nuclear talks ended in Oman on May 11 with a communiqué so diplomatically anodyne —
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MUSCAT — The fourth round of US-Iran nuclear talks ended in Oman on May 11 with a communiqué so diplomatically anodyne —
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DOHA — Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met Vice President Vance in Washington on May 8, flew to
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DOHA — Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met Vice President Vance in Washington on May 8, flew to
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TEHRAN — On the same Sunday morning Pakistan’s foreign ministry handed Washington Iran’s formal response to the war-ending memorandum, drones were already
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TEHRAN — On the same Sunday morning Pakistan’s foreign ministry handed Washington Iran’s formal response to the war-ending memorandum, drones were already
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco reported net profit of $32.5 billion for the first quarter of 2026 on Saturday, beating analyst expectations by
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TEHRAN — Iran formally submitted its response to the US peace proposal via Pakistani mediators on May 10, 2026, while three separate
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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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