TEHRAN — Iran’s armed forces announced on Sunday a conditional suspension of military operations against Israel, hours after Israeli jets struck targets across six Iranian cities. In the same sequence of statements,
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi landed in Tehran on Saturday evening — his third trip to the Iranian capital in
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RIYADH — Every GCC country operating Patriot air defense — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Bahrain — has reached near-zero interceptor
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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directed his department on June 6, 2026, to use “all available authorities” to redirect frozen Iranian
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia entered its hundredth day of war having consumed three-quarters of its annual deficit allowance in a single quarter,
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WASHINGTON — The US Treasury confirmed on June 6 that it is exploring the redirection of Iranian frozen assets to finance reconstruction
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ST. PETERSBURG — Saudi Arabia’s energy minister stood on a stage in St. Petersburg this week as Vladimir Putin’s guest of honor,
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WASHINGTON — President Trump told NBC on Thursday that Iran retains “21–22 percent” of its pre-war missiles, describing a military that has
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Table of Contents What Saudi Arabia Said on June 6 What Saudi Arabia Did Not Do How Does the GCC Response Compare?
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A PAC-3 Patriot missile launches during a live-fire exercise. Each interceptor costs approximately $4 million; Bahrain entered June 6 with an estimated
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WASHINGTON — The State Department approved a $1.98 billion counter-drone sale to Kuwait on June 6 — the same day IRGC missiles
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco will disburse $21.89 billion to shareholders on June 9, and its cash reserves will drop from $75.2 billion
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MUSCAT — Iran formally rejected the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding on June 6, 2026, and simultaneously submitted an alternative proposal through
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JEDDAH — Iran filled roughly a third of its Hajj 2026 quota, dispatching approximately 30,000 pilgrims against an allocation of 87,550, and
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BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president told Iran on live television that it is using his country as a bargaining chip in nuclear negotiations
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VIENNA — On June 5, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters that the United States and Iran appeared “pretty close” to
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency circulated its first assessment of Iran’s nuclear programme since the war began on Thursday, telling
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BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem did not just decline the June 4 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. He called it “absurd, humiliating and insulting”
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RIYADH — The State Department cleared $8.6 billion in emergency arms sales to four Middle Eastern partners on May 3, handing Qatar
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RIYADH — OPEC+ will add 188,000 barrels per day to global supply on Sunday, June 7 — a pre-committed increase Saudi Arabia
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RIYADH — IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi held separate meetings with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Energy Minister Prince
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RIYADH — The US Army’s FY2027 budget request for 2,798 PAC-3 MSE interceptors is a $12.2 billion claim on the only factory
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RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan ended fourteen days of public silence on the Iran crisis with a concentrated
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline — the Petroline — reached its physical maximum throughput of seven million barrels per day on
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WASHINGTON — Iran and the United States are no longer negotiating the same Phase 1. On June 2, Secretary of State Marco
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RIYADH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on June 4 and condemned what
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