Abdul Mohammed

ANTALYA — Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan spent April 18 in two conversations that, taken together, amount to a diplomatic architecture:

TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader praised his navy on Telegram on April 18 while IRGC gunboats fired on two Indian-flagged tankers in

The IRGC Just Declared the Entire Persian Gulf a Kill Zone — and Markets Shrugged DHAHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir is heading to Washington carrying Iran’s in-principle agreement to a four-country nuclear monitoring framework —

Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran — the civilian diplomatic institution whose negotiating team was recalled from Islamabad by Zolghadr’s “deviation

JEDDAH — Iran fired on Indian oil tankers and lost its largest remaining customer on the same day the American licence that

ANTALYA — Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh killed the April 20 Islamabad round on Friday morning, telling journalists at the Antalya

ANTALYA — At the precise hour that Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan sat in a quadrilateral meeting at the Antalya

Table of Contents Killed on Day One What Happened on the Road to Ghandouriyeh? Who Fired? The Israeli Violations No One Is

ISLAMABAD — Donald Trump told reporters on April 16 that he would fly to Pakistan to sign an Iran deal — the

ISLAMABAD — The Islamabad Accord ceasefire expires on April 22 and cannot be renewed, not because the parties refuse to extend it

ISLAMABAD — On April 22, Indonesia’s 221,000 Hajj pilgrims — the single largest national contingent — board their first charter flights to

JEDDAH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman privately told President Trump in an April 16 phone call that a Lebanon ceasefire

WASHINGTON — On the morning of April 18, Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged European governments to reimpose sanctions on Iran, warning

WASHINGTON — Three senior Iranian officials confirmed to the New York Times on April 17 that Iran and the United States are

ANTALYA — Iran’s foreign minister called Saudi Arabia’s Prince Faisal bin Farhan three times in nine days — on April 9, April

PARIS — France and Britain convened roughly 40 nations at the Elysee Palace on April 17 to launch the Strait of Hormuz

ISLAMABAD — The United States is negotiating a deal to release $20 billion in frozen Iranian assets in exchange for Iran’s enriched

$CO The structural contradiction between Washington’s account of Iranian nuclear concessions and Tehran’s simultaneous denials — both reading from the same three-page

TEHRAN — Iran rejected the US-brokered Lebanon ceasefire as a stand-alone achievement on April 17 and demanded a simultaneous end to fighting