TEHRAN — Mostafa Taheri did not ask Iran’s parliament for permission to send warships into the Strait of Hormuz, or to mine the shipping lanes, or to seize another tanker. He asked
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ABU DHABI — When Mohammed bin Zayed called Mohammed bin Salman in the first days of March 2026 to propose a joint
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RIYADH — Donald Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as it departed Beijing on May 15, retroactively disowned the ceasefire
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DUBAI — Brent crude hit $111.04 a barrel at 8:45 AM Eastern on Thursday as markets priced in what the Trump-Xi Beijing
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Table of Contents The 90 Percent That Wasn’t Swept How Many Mines Are Actually in the Strait? One Ship, Zero Helicopters, and
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s non-oil purchasing managers’ index fell to 48.8 in March 2026, breaching the contraction threshold for the first time
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RIYADH — King Salman issued seven royal decrees on May 15, reshuffling deputy-level posts across the National Guard, Finance, Commerce, Tourism, and
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DHAHRAN — The Trump-Xi crude oil agreement is political theater with structural consequences. There is no volume commitment, no pricing mechanism, and
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HORMUZ STRAIT — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deployed more than 340 fast-attack boats across five monitored zones of the Strait of
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has roughly 400 PAC-3 MSE interceptors left from a pre-war inventory of 2,800 rounds, and 1.8 million pilgrims
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is shopping a non-aggression pact between Iran and its Arab neighbours that explicitly invokes the 1975 Helsinki Accords,
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TEHRAN — On May 14, 2026, Vice President JD Vance told reporters at the White House that the United States is “making
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Saudi Arabia’s Co-Belligerent Trap Was Built With Its Own Bombs A Royal Saudi Air Force F-15SA Eagle departs on full afterburner —
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Table of Contents The Strike Near Limah The Floating Armoury Off Fujairah Why Did the IRGC Hit an Indian Ship? What Araghchi
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DUBAI — A vessel anchored 38 nautical miles northeast of Fujairah was boarded and seized by what the UK Maritime Trade Operations
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BEIJING — Xi Jinping’s endorsement that “the Strait of Hormuz must remain open” at the May 14 summit with Donald Trump is
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BEIJING/DUBAI — A Chinese-owned supertanker carrying nearly two million barrels of Iraqi crude oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz on May
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BEIJING — A COSCO supertanker crossed the Larak Island threshold in the Strait of Hormuz on May 13, toll-free and fully loaded,
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KUWAIT CITY — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X on May 13 that Kuwait had “unlawfully attacked an Iranian boat”
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority is not a negotiating position. It is a functioning customs bureaucracy — with a domain
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DOHA — Donald Trump landed in Qatar on May 14 carrying $243.5 billion in signed economic deals and a $38 billion commitment
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia conducted covert airstrikes on Iranian territory in late March 2026 as a confirmed participant in Operation Epic Fury,
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared a 500-kilometer operational crescent on May 12, stretching from Jask in the Gulf of
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KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait summoned Iran’s ambassador on May 13 to deliver a formal protest over the armed infiltration of Bubiyan Island
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RIYADH — On May 13, 2026, as Donald Trump landed in Riyadh to formalize a $142 billion arms package alongside the political
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RIYADH — The last time an American president sat across from a Syrian head of state was March 26, 2000, when Bill
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