DHAHRAN — Brent crude’s 9% single-session collapse on May 6 — driven by a leaked one-page MOU framework that neither government has
MoreANKARA — Four foreign ministers, three formal meetings in ten weeks, one nuclear-armed signatory, and a combined 1.9 million troops under arms
MoreRIYADH — Abbas Araghchi flew to Beijing on Tuesday not to negotiate but to dictate. By the time Donald Trump steps onto
MoreWASHINGTON — The United States has offered Iran a one-page, 14-point memorandum of understanding that accepts what Washington spent three months rejecting:
MoreTEHRAN — Iran formally launched the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on May 5, 2026, a uniformed bureaucracy with a domain name (PGSA.ir),
MoreBEIJING — Wang Yi told Abbas Araghchi to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, and Iran’s foreign ministry, posting its own
MoreRIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly offered the United States roughly $100 billion in direct war financing, full normalization with Israel,
MoreWASHINGTON — Trump told NBC on May 4 that “complete dismantlement” of Iran’s nuclear programme is “all I’d accept” — and the
MoreFUJAIRAH — Iran struck the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone for the second consecutive day on May 5, shutting down the 922,000-barrel-per-day ADNOC
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MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia condemned “in the strongest terms” Iran’s ongoing strikes against the UAE on May 5, with Crown Prince Mohammed
MoreRIYADH — Two competing coalitions are trying to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — the American one with guided-missile destroyers and the
MoreABU DHABI — Iran struck the VTTI terminal at Fujairah on May 4, the same morning the US Navy launched Project Freedom
MoreDUBAI — Iran struck an Abu Dhabi state oil company tanker with two drones in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the
MoreJEDDAH — Two hundred and sixty Iranian pilgrims entered Saudi Arabia on April 25 via the Jadidat Arar land crossing on the
MoreRIYADH — Iran’s UN ambassador told the Security Council on May 1 that six Arab states — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain,
MoreWASHINGTON — President Trump announced Project Freedom on Saturday — a US Navy convoy to escort neutral merchant ships through the Strait
MoreTEHRAN — Iran submitted a 14-point counterproposal to the United States via Pakistani mediators on May 2, demanding the end of the
MoreThe UAE coastline flanked by the Persian Gulf to the west and the Gulf of Oman to the east — the twin
MoreRIYADH — Marco Rubio told Fox News on Monday that Iran’s revised nuclear proposal was “better than what we thought they were
MoreDUBAI — A Japanese supertanker carrying two million barrels of Saudi crude and an Emirati LNG carrier loaded at Abu Dhabi’s Das
MoreDHAHRAN — At 09:14 GMT on April 29, Brent crude touched $114.50 a barrel, a number that should mean disaster in a
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan took a phone call from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday, April 29
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