TEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned on July 3 that Iran will “resume proportionate actions” if the United States and Israel fail to meet their obligations under the Islamabad
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TEHRAN — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s parliament, said on Iranian state television on July 2, 2026, that “talk of IAEA
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BEIJING — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi co-signed language on July 1 endorsing “freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz” in
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s integrated air and missile defense — Patriot PAC-3 batteries, THAAD fire units, and the data-link architecture that binds
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TEHRAN — On July 1, the Doha talks confirmed working groups, a shuttle format, and a dispute over $3 billion in frozen
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Table of Contents The OPEC Exit as Legal Divorce How Did Saudi Arabia and the UAE Diverge on the Iran War? The
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DOHA — The United States, Iran, and mediators reached a preliminary agreement on July 1 to release $3 billion of frozen Iranian
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has sold at least six million barrels of crude on the spot market — a transaction Bloomberg described
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RIYADH — Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Tuesday that the United States has “all the cards in the negotiation”
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia launched covert airstrikes on Iranian territory in late March 2026 — the first known direct military action by
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TEHRAN — Masoud Pezeshkian flew to Qom on June 28 to meet the grand ayatollahs whose authority predates the republic. By June
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TEHRAN — Sixty-two of Iran’s eighty-eight Assembly of Experts members — the constitutional body that installed Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Leader in
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DHAHRAN — Aramco’s July Official Selling Price to Asia collapsed by $6 per barrel to a $9.50 premium over the Oman/Dubai benchmark
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Table of Contents What Happens When P&I Clubs Withdraw War Risk Cover? How Did the London Market Close the Strait Before Iran
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia just approved a production quota increase it cannot physically deliver — Hormuz remains closed, actual output sits at
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Doha’s West Bay at night from Al Corniche — the city where Iranian and US delegations arrived on June 30 to meet
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VIENNA — Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi declared on June 30 that International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors will not be granted
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DOHA — On Day 13 of the Iran-US memorandum of understanding’s 60-day Phase 2 window, three delegations arrived in Qatar holding three
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DUBAI — Emmanuel Macron stood beside Sultan Haitham bin Tarik on June 29 and announced a multinational mine-clearance mission for the Strait
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DOHA — US envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Doha on Tuesday to open what President Trump announced as high-level talks with Iran,
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BEIJING — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived in Beijing on June 30 for a two-day official visit at the
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NEOM — PIF’s 2026-2030 strategy, approved by MBS on April 15, reclassifies NEOM as an “independent ecosystem” — a standalone pillar quarantined
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency cannot say where Iran’s enriched uranium is. In its June 4 quarterly report, the agency
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DUBAI — The United States and Iran have issued simultaneous, incompatible directives governing passage through the Strait of Hormuz — and the
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DUBAI — Commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapsed to fewer than five AIS-visible vessels on Sunday, down from 70 crossings
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DOHA — Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Monday that Iran had “requested a meeting” in Doha for Tuesday, June 30;
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