China Sent Two Signals on Day One of the Hormuz Blockade — Neither Was an Accident DUBAI — Within hours of the

DUBAI — A sanctioned Chinese tanker carrying 250,000 barrels of methanol sailed through the Strait of Hormuz overnight on the first day

RIYADH — Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Jadaan landed in Islamabad on April 11 — the same day JD Vance sat

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s decision to route its post-collapse diplomacy through Riyadh — not back to Islamabad, not to a neutral capital —

ISLAMABAD — The United States naval blockade of Iran, effective 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on April 13, is not the end of

Table of Contents The Call That Was Not a Call Six Calls, One Message Saudi Arabia’s Three-Door Trap The Oman Template Blockade

Tehran has shifted Hormuz control from the IRGC’s headless navy to Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters — the one Iranian institution the West

TEHRAN — Iran is conducting two foreign policies simultaneously, and on blockade day, neither authority knows whether the other speaks for the

LONDON — Britain told the United States on April 12 that it would not join the naval blockade of Hormuz, and Donald

WASHINGTON — On April 12, 2026, Donald Trump posted a single word on Truth Social that sixty-four years of American maritime lawyers

RIYADH — The Gulf Cooperation Council is splitting along a fault line its own charter has no mechanism to address. On one

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia summoned Iraqi Ambassador Safia Taleb al-Suhail on Sunday to formally protest drone and missile attacks launched from Iraqi

TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader is alive, mentally sharp, and governing by speakerphone — and that is constitutionally worse, for the purposes