CHANGED: True {“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Saudi Arabia spent $6 billion on American missiles the same week it blocked the American operation
MoreTable of Contents What the Statement Says — and What It Omits Three Countries, One Morning, Zero Casualties Why Did Faisal Call
MoreTEHRAN — Iran formally submitted its response to the US peace proposal via Pakistani mediators on May 10, 2026, while three separate
MoreRIYADH — The GCC spent 45 years as a security club where every member needed protection and none could provide it —
MoreWASHINGTON — On the same morning Marco Rubio’s deadline for Iran’s response to the 14-point MOU expired, the National Council of Resistance
MoreMANAMA — Iran did not threaten to close the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. It threatened something more useful: to keep the
MoreDUBAI — A 71-square-kilometre oil slick first detected by Copernicus Sentinel satellites on May 6 west of Iran’s Kharg Island terminal continued
More{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Four days before Donald Trump lands in the Saudi capital with a $142 billion arms deal in his
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s war with Iran has accomplished what a decade of Vision 2030 presentations could not: it has made the
More{“content”: “ nnnn n TEHRAN u2014 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published new maritime control rules for the Strait of Hormuz and
MoreDHAHRAN — Aramco is about to report its strongest quarter in a year — a $29 billion profit that looks like vindication
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia will spend seventy-two hours hosting the most consequential diplomatic sequence of the Iran war — and will not
More{“content”: “ TEHRAN u2014 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called IRGC strikes on the UAE “madness” on May 4, requested an urgent meeting
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has approximately 400 PAC-3 MSE interceptors remaining — 14% of its pre-war stockpile — and no new rounds
MoreRIYADH — Hours after US Navy destroyers traded fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz — strikes Donald Trump dismissed
MoreCHANGED {“content”: “ DUBAI u2014 Gen. Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NBC News this week that
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, activated on May 5, does not administer a toll — it administers a 40-question intelligence-collection
MoreTEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf branded a US-drafted memorandum of understanding as “Operation Fauxios” on May 7, publicly mocking
More{“content”: “ DHAHRAN u2014 Brent crude’s 9% single-session collapse on May 6 u2014 driven by a leaked one-page MOU framework that neither
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
More{“content”: “ WASHINGTON u2014 The United States has offered Iran a one-page, 14-point memorandum of understanding that accepts what Washington spent three
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
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