{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz for the second time in twelve hours on April 8, and the
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco’s May Official Selling Price for Arab Light crude to Asia, set at a record +$19.50 per barrel above
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TEHRAN — Iran’s president stood in front of the man who runs the Supreme Leader’s intelligence directorate and told him, on record,
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck Kuwait’s largest oil refinery, power stations, and water desalination plants on Tuesday morning — hours after
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DHAHRAN — Hours after Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced it would honor a ceasefire, an IRGC drone struck a pumping station
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RIYADH — SABIC told the Saudi stock exchange on Tuesday that it cannot estimate when its Jubail plants will resume production, warning
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IRGC Dezful (front) and Zolfaqar Basir (rear) ballistic missiles on a launch vehicle at an IRGC Aerospace Force exhibition in Tehran. The
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RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund’s 2026-2030 strategy, formally published this spring, does what no Saudi official has been willing to say
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UNITED NATIONS — Bahrain’s ambassador will walk into the Security Council at 16:00 UTC today knowing Russia is going to veto his
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei broke a 26-day public silence on the morning of April 7 with a written statement
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia shut the King Fahd Causeway early Tuesday, severing the only road between the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain for
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s decision to open King Fahd Air Base in Taif to American offensive strike operations has done what thirty-eight
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates activated air defenses simultaneously against Iranian missile and drone barrages on April
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DUBAI — The Qatari LNG tanker Al Daayen was at 26.10°N / 55.77°E inside the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday morning, moving
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MUSCAT — US and Iranian mediators are circulating a two-phase, 45-day ceasefire framework — the first structured proposal since Steve Witkoff’s direct-talks
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MUSCAT — Oman and Iran held deputy foreign minister-level talks in Muscat on Saturday to draft the terms of a new Hormuz
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Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar (left, facing camera) chairs a formal bilateral delegation meeting in 2025 —
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TEHRAN — Iran is not blockading the Strait of Hormuz. It is franchising it. The announcement on April 4 that “brotherly Iraq”
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ABU DHABI — UAE air defenses intercepted every incoming Iranian missile over the Ruwais Industrial Complex at 6:44 AM on Saturday, April
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KUWAIT CITY — Iranian drones struck the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation headquarters in the Shuwaikh Oil Sector Complex early on Saturday, April 5
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RIYADH — Iran has blown up the only diplomatic exit that Saudi Arabia actually controlled. Islamabad’s mediation channel — assembled by Riyadh
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia will host between 750,000 and two million Muslim pilgrims for Hajj 2026 while Iranian ballistic missiles and drones
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MANAMA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck the MSC Ishyka, a Liberian-flagged container ship, with a drone on April 4, claiming
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RIYADH — Iran does not need to hit Saudi Arabia to hurt it. Thirty-five days into the war, Tehran has discovered that
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DHAHRAN — A projectile struck 350 metres from the Bushehr reactor on Friday, close enough to kill a security guard but not
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