ÉVIAN — Six of the world’s leading military powers told the G7 summit on June 16 they would deploy a “strictly defensive
MoreThe Strait of Hormuz as captured by NASA’s MODIS instrument in December 2020. The narrow passage between Iran (top) and the Musandam
MoreTEHRAN — Hours after Iran signed the Hormuz MOU on June 15, the IRGC Navy radioed a US destroyer conducting mine-clearance operations
MorePARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron convened a dedicated Arab-leaders session on the Strait of Hormuz at the G7 summit in Evian
MoreRIYADH — The US-Iran MOU did not resolve whether Iran can charge ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz; it codified the mechanism
MoreDHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company’s $3.7 billion guaranteed senior debt grace period expired on Monday morning, and not one of the three
MoreTEHRAN — Iran notified the United Nations on June 15 that non-hostile ships may transit the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with
MoreDHAHRAN — The grace period on Sadara Chemical Company’s $3.7 billion in guaranteed senior debt expired on June 15, 2026, and none
MoreDHAHRAN — The deal that reopens the Strait of Hormuz sent Brent crude to $80.67 a barrel on June 15 — twenty-seven
MoreREPLACEMENT MADE The Palais Lumière in Évian-les-Bains, the Belle Époque spa building (1900–1902) hosting the 52nd G7 summit on June 15–17, 2026.
MoreTEHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps broadcast an audio warning to all commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz on June
MoreREPLACEMENT MADE DHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company’s $3.7 billion in guaranteed senior debt exits its five-year grace period tomorrow morning, and neither
MoreTEHRAN — The memorandum of understanding that the United States and Iran were scheduled to sign in Geneva on June 14 prohibits
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told state broadcaster IRIB on June 13 that any agreement ending the war must cover
MoreDHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company’s $3.7 billion guaranteed senior debt grace period expires Monday, June 15 — roughly 41 hours from this
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia ended twenty-four days of public silence on the Iran framework on June 13, 2026, not through a State
MoreDHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company’s $3.7 billion in guaranteed senior debt becomes payable on Monday, June 15 — less than twenty-four hours
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia has been named as one of twelve approvers of a nuclear deal that does not contain nuclear terms.
MoreGENEVA — The White House named Vice President JD Vance to travel to Geneva on Sunday to sign a memorandum of understanding
MoreDHAHRAN — On the morning of June 12, U.S. forces shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones over the Strait of Hormuz,
MoreRIYADH — On the same day Iran hit eighteen targets across two GCC capitals, Saudi Arabia’s only confirmed diplomatic act was a
MoreWASHINGTON — The Arms Control Association published its formal assessment of the US-Saudi 123 Agreement on June 12, 2026 — the same
MoreRIYADH — Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on June 11 that he had made “a great settlement of the
MoreMANAMA — The GCC told Kuwait and Bahrain on June 11 that “any attack against one of them is an attack against
MoreLONDON — Saudi Arabia’s oil export economics do not recover when a Hormuz ceasefire is signed — they recover 12 to 36
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