ISLAMABAD — Senior IRGC commanders publicly declared Iran’s ballistic missile program off-limits to negotiators on April 8 and 9, constraining the mandate of the Iranian delegation headed by Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, accused the United States of three violations of the April 7 ceasefire agreement within
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DHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company, the $20 billion Aramco-Dow joint venture that was once the largest project finance deal in Middle Eastern
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WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on April 9 that he had instructed his ambassador to begin direct negotiations with
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JEDDAH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan spoke by telephone with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on April 9, 2026
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RIYADH — President Donald Trump threatened Iran with “lethal prosecution and destruction” on Truth Social late Wednesday while his vice president was
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ISLAMABAD — The ceasefire between Iran and the United States now runs through one man’s phone. Field Marshal Asim Munir — Pakistan’s
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ABU DHABI — ADNOC chief executive Sultan Al Jaber declared on April 9 that 230 loaded oil tankers are sitting outside the
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Hajj 2026 Under Ceasefire: Saudi Arabia’s April 18 Permit Cordon Creates a Deadline MBS Cannot Defer
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s Hajj pilgrim arrival window opens April 18 — four days before the Iran ceasefire expires on April 22,
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WASHINGTON — The United States asked NATO allies this week to deliver written plans for securing the Strait of Hormuz “within days,”
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The ceasefire was nine hours old when the bombs fell on Corniche al-Mazraa. It was rush hour in one of Beirut’s busiest
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DHAHRAN — Goldman Sachs published a Q2 Brent forecast of $90 per barrel on April 8, cut from $99, on the strength
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published a navigational chart on April 9 marking the Strait of Hormuz’s internationally established shipping
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JEDDAH — Britain has deployed its most advanced ground-based air defence system to Saudi Arabia, and it cannot intercept a single one
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ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates on April 8 formally demanded that Iran be “held accountable and fully liable for damages
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Table of Contents Who Ghalibaf Is What Are the Three Violations Ghalibaf Claims? Why Did Vance Call Three Violations “Quite a Lot
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WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt produced three contradictory formulations of the Trump administration’s position on an Iran-US Strait of
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DHAHRAN — Iran physically blocked Chinese Cosco-linked tankers from transiting the Strait of Hormuz on April 9, less than 48 hours after
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JEDDAH — The two-week ceasefire agreed on April 7 expires on approximately April 21. Indonesia’s first Hajj charter departs April 22. Between
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ISLAMABAD — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the man Iran has designated to lead its delegation at the Islamabad peace talks on April 10,
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{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz for the second time in twelve hours on April 8, and the
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told ABC News on April 8, 2026, that the United States is considering operating the Strait of
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia asked for the Strait of Hormuz to be opened, and Iran obliged — by installing a tollbooth. The
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco’s May Official Selling Price for Arab Light crude to Asia, set at a record +$19.50 per barrel above
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TEHRAN — Iran’s president stood in front of the man who runs the Supreme Leader’s intelligence directorate and told him, on record,
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck Kuwait’s largest oil refinery, power stations, and water desalination plants on Tuesday morning — hours after
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