LONDON — Saudi Arabia is a belligerent in a war whose maritime consequences have trapped approximately 6,000 seafarers in and around the

TEHRAN — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Baghdad on October 18 that the Strait of

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia accepted a phone call from Iran on 11 October while Houthi missiles were still hitting Saudi airports and

RIYADH — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say two supertankers struck mines in the Strait of Hormuz within roughly 24 hours, the first of

LONDON — The same week that Britain’s maritime trade watchdog published the highest sustained rate of attacks on commercial shipping since the

DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared on October 17 that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and that “the passage

DUBAI — A second supertanker struck a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary

RIYADH — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi telephoned Saudi Arabia’s Prince Faisal bin Farhan on October 11 and offered “any assistance necessary

TEHRAN — Iran’s war in the Strait of Hormuz shifted on October 17 when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed a supertanker

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has, for the first time since the 2023 Beijing rapprochement, publicly accused Iran of bearing responsibility for the

DUBAI — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has struck Gulf energy infrastructure at least 135 times since 28 February, hitting refineries, gas fields, ports

TEHRAN — Iran is no longer merely blockading the Strait of Hormuz. It is administering it. On October 15, Rear Admiral Habibollah