Table of Contents Twice in Eleven Years, the Same Architecture What Is Actually on the Table at Islamabad — and Who Is
MoreTEHRAN — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s Parliament Speaker and former commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, declared on April 20 that Iran
MoreRIYADH — The Public Investment Fund’s board, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, approved a 2026-2030 strategy on April 15 that
MoreTEHRAN — The commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force told Iranians on April 19 that the ceasefire has not slowed Iran’s missile
MoreTable of Contents “Delays” Is Not De-Escalation — The Tasnim Headline as Countdown Clock What Happened to the MV Touska on April
MoreISLAMABAD — The United States announced on April 19 that Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and senior adviser Jared
MoreRIYADH — Saudi Arabia has no seat at the Iran ceasefire table, and that may be exactly how Mohammed bin Salman wants
MoreJEDDAH — Mohammed bin Salman called Donald Trump the day before the April 16 ceasefire announcement and told him a Lebanon truce
MoreISLAMABAD — President Donald Trump told Fox News on April 19 that Iran will get “blown up” if it refuses to sign
MoreTEHRAN — On April 18, the captain of the Indian-flagged tanker Sanmar Herald did something no maritime officer had done in the
MoreANTALYA — Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan spent April 18 in two conversations that, taken together, amount to a diplomatic architecture:
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader praised his navy on Telegram on April 18 while IRGC gunboats fired on two Indian-flagged tankers in
MoreThe IRGC Just Declared the Entire Persian Gulf a Kill Zone — and Markets Shrugged DHAHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
MoreISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir is heading to Washington carrying Iran’s in-principle agreement to a four-country nuclear monitoring framework —
MoreIran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran — the civilian diplomatic institution whose negotiating team was recalled from Islamabad by Zolghadr’s “deviation
MoreDHAHRAN — South Korea announced it had secured 273 million barrels of crude oil outside the Strait of Hormuz, and every headline
MoreJEDDAH — Iran fired on Indian oil tankers and lost its largest remaining customer on the same day the American licence that
MoreANTALYA — Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh killed the April 20 Islamabad round on Friday morning, telling journalists at the Antalya
MoreANTALYA — At the precise hour that Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan sat in a quadrilateral meeting at the Antalya
MoreTable of Contents Killed on Day One What Happened on the Road to Ghandouriyeh? Who Fired? The Israeli Violations No One Is
MoreISLAMABAD — Donald Trump told reporters on April 16 that he would fly to Pakistan to sign an Iran deal — the
MoreISLAMABAD — The Islamabad Accord ceasefire expires on April 22 and cannot be renewed, not because the parties refuse to extend it
MoreTwo Dozen Ships Turn Back at Hormuz as Insurance Market — Not Navies — Enforces the Strait’s Closure
DUBAI — Approximately two dozen bulk carriers and oil tankers began advancing toward the Strait of Hormuz on April 18 then reversed
MoreTable of Contents What Did Ghalibaf Actually Deny? The Twelve-Hour Hormuz Reversal Who Actually Controls the Strait? Oil Markets and the Counter-Signal
MoreISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s 25th Mechanised Division — 10,000 troops equipped with T-80UD main battle tanks, M109A2 self-propelled howitzers, and Talha armoured personnel
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