Abdul Mohammed

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

$CO The five-day coercive window closed on April 17 without resolution; what emerged instead was a document both sides claim validates their

Table of Contents The Call That Was Not a Call Six Calls, One Message Saudi Arabia’s Three-Door Trap The Oman Template Blockade

Tehran has shifted Hormuz control from the IRGC’s headless navy to Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters — the one Iranian institution the West

TEHRAN — Iran is conducting two foreign policies simultaneously, and on blockade day, neither authority knows whether the other speaks for the

LONDON — Britain told the United States on April 12 that it would not join the naval blockade of Hormuz, and Donald

WASHINGTON — On April 12, 2026, Donald Trump posted a single word on Truth Social that sixty-four years of American maritime lawyers

TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader is alive, mentally sharp, and governing by speakerphone — and that is constitutionally worse, for the purposes

RIYADH — South Korea’s presidential chief of staff landed in Riyadh on Sunday carrying a handwritten message from President Lee Jae-myung to

BEIRUT — Israeli airstrikes killed 11 people in southern Lebanon overnight on April 12, hitting homes in the villages of Maaroub and