Tehran has shifted Hormuz control from the IRGC’s headless navy to Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters — the one Iranian institution the West
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has deployed Patriot PAC-3 missile batteries around Mecca and Medina, releasing official images on April 12-13 showing launchers
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TEHRAN — Iran is conducting two foreign policies simultaneously, and on blockade day, neither authority knows whether the other speaks for the
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LONDON — Britain told the United States on April 12 that it would not join the naval blockade of Hormuz, and Donald
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DHAHRAN — The US Navy began enforcing a full blockade of Iranian ports on April 13, eliminating from the Asian crude market
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WASHINGTON — On April 12, 2026, Donald Trump posted a single word on Truth Social that sixty-four years of American maritime lawyers
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WASHINGTON — US Central Command imposed a naval blockade on all Iranian ports at 10:00 AM Eastern Time on April 13, 2026,
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TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader is alive, mentally sharp, and governing by speakerphone — and that is constitutionally worse, for the purposes
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RIYADH — SABIC, the petrochemical giant 70%-owned by Saudi Aramco, filed a formal Tadawul regulatory disclosure on April 8 stating it “cannot
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DHAHRAN — US Central Command began enforcing a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz at 10:00 AM Eastern Time on April
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RIYADH — South Korea’s presidential chief of staff landed in Riyadh on Sunday carrying a handwritten message from President Lee Jae-myung to
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RIYADH — The Pentagon just told Saudi Arabia, on paper and in public, that the missiles keeping its cities alive are not
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BEIRUT — Israeli airstrikes killed 11 people in southern Lebanon overnight on April 12, hitting homes in the villages of Maaroub and
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday that its East-West Pipeline has been restored to full 7-million-barrel-per-day capacity — four days after
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TEHRAN — The IRGC Navy warned on April 12 that any military vessel attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz “will
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has deployed approximately 13,000 ground troops and up to 18 fighter jets to King Abdulaziz Air Base in Dhahran,
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DUBAI — Two empty supertankers turned back from the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday as US-Iran talks in Islamabad collapsed, but a
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Brent at $96 After a Declared Blockade Is the Price of Disbelief DHAHRAN — The United States Navy has declared a blockade
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ISLAMABAD — Twenty-one hours of talks ended on Sunday with the United States demanding that Iran surrender its entire uranium enrichment programme,
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RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan called UN Secretary-General António Guterres on approximately April 1, ten days before the
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TEHRAN — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has publicly accused IRGC commanders Ahmad Vahidi and Ali Abdollahi of “acting unilaterally” and destroying any
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DHAHRAN — Pakistan deployed approximately 13,000 ground troops and at least ten fighter jets to King Abdulaziz Air Base in Saudi Arabia’s
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ISLAMABAD — Fourteen hours of direct talks between US Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ended early
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ABU DHABI — The UAE has formally demanded that Iran pay reparations for 2,819 missiles and drones fired at Gulf states over
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