WASHINGTON — The US military seized the sanctioned oil tanker Majestic X in the Indian Ocean on April 23, a second interdiction
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TEHRAN — The man who holds the only constitutional authority to override the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps communicates by handwritten notes carried
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VIENNA — China, Russia, and Iran jointly met IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Vienna on April 24 — the third trilateral
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WASHINGTON — President Trump told reporters from the Oval Office on April 24 that Iran “must” stop financing Hezbollah as a condition
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Table of Contents The Custodian’s Arithmetic How Many PAC-3 Rounds Does Saudi Arabia Have Left? One Factory in Arkansas Can Allied Transfers
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WASHINGTON — The USS George H.W. Bush and its carrier strike group entered the US Central Command area of responsibility on April
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on a third commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday morning and,
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{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Donald Trump told ABC News on April 23 that he is under no time pressure to end the
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TEHRAN — Brent crude pushed above $105 a barrel on Wednesday and Polymarket’s wagering on a US-Iran peace deal by April 30
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TEHRAN — Iran’s deputy speaker of parliament Hamidreza Hajibabaei confirmed on Wednesday that the first revenue from Tehran’s Strait of Hormuz toll
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Table of Contents The 57% Profit Surge on 30% Less Oil How Does Aramco Actually Pay the Saudi State? The IPO Split:
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WASHINGTON — The USS Spruance put several rounds from its 5-inch gun into the engine room of a 295-metre Iranian container ship
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Table of Contents Thirteen Days from Veto to Coordination What Changed in the April 20 Call? The Economic Arithmetic Behind the Alignment
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Table of Contents What Does 31 Vessels Actually Mean? Trump Kills the Clock The IRGC Answers Within Hours Saudi Arabia’s Indefinite Arithmetic
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RIYADH — Ukraine signed 10-year defence cooperation agreements with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar between March 27 and 30, covering drone
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WASHINGTON — The White House ruled on April 22, 2026 that Iran’s seizure of two commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz
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BEIJING / RIYADH — Chinese President Xi Jinping told Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on April 20 that “the normal passage through
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has killed a $1.5 billion Pakistani arms sale to Sudan by withdrawing the financing that made it possible,
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The Northwood Dilemma: Saudi Arabia’s Absence from the 30-Nation Hormuz Coalition and Why It Matters
LONDON — Thirty nations sent military planners to Northwood on Tuesday, the first time a non-NATO command structure has been used to
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RIYADH — Saudi Transport Minister Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser spent the week of April 16-22, 2026, holding back-to-back virtual meetings with his
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JEDDAH — Ali Akbar Velayati, the man who has advised Iran’s Supreme Leader for three decades, announced on April 20 that the
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DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two commercial container ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday morning — the
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WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran were, by multiple accounts from officials on both sides, within reach of a preliminary nuclear
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JEDDAH — Indonesia launched its 2026 Hajj airlift on Tuesday morning, sending 391 pilgrims from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport’s dedicated Terminal 2F aboard
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