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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

$CO The internal contradictions of the three-page MOU — including the ambiguity that allows Trump to claim Iranian agreement while Tehran’s foreign

RIYADH — The United States Navy has claimed the right to board, search, and seize vessels linked to Iran “regardless of location”

JEDDAH — At 5 PM Eastern Standard Time on April 16, Donald Trump announced a ten-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, the

JEDDAH — On April 15, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Jeddah to collect $3 billion in fresh Saudi financing and an

RIYADH — The IRGC told the world on April 9 that it had “absolutely not launched any projectiles towards any country” since

RIYADH — China’s Defense Minister told the world on April 13 that the Strait of Hormuz is “open to us,” and in

LONDON — When roughly forty nations convene by video on April 17 for the Macron-Starmer Hormuz summit, Saudi Arabia — the country

TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader has not been seen, photographed, or confirmed alive in any verifiable visual or audio format for 46

Table of Contents The Leak and the Landing What Does the SMDA Actually Obligate Pakistan to Do? How Did the SMDA Bypass

LONDON — On April 17, more than 40 nations will join a videoconference co-chaired by Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer to plan