{“content”: “ nnnn n TEHRAN u2014 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published new maritime control rules for the Strait of Hormuz and
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DHAHRAN — Aramco is about to report its strongest quarter in a year — a $29 billion profit that looks like vindication
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will spend seventy-two hours hosting the most consequential diplomatic sequence of the Iran war — and will not
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{“content”: “ TEHRAN u2014 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called IRGC strikes on the UAE “madness” on May 4, requested an urgent meeting
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has approximately 400 PAC-3 MSE interceptors remaining — 14% of its pre-war stockpile — and no new rounds
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RIYADH — Hours after US Navy destroyers traded fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz — strikes Donald Trump dismissed
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CHANGED {“content”: “ DUBAI u2014 Gen. Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NBC News this week that
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, activated on May 5, does not administer a toll — it administers a 40-question intelligence-collection
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TEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf branded a US-drafted memorandum of understanding as “Operation Fauxios” on May 7, publicly mocking
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{“content”: “ DHAHRAN u2014 Brent crude’s 9% single-session collapse on May 6 u2014 driven by a leaked one-page MOU framework that neither
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ANKARA — Four foreign ministers, three formal meetings in ten weeks, one nuclear-armed signatory, and a combined 1.9 million troops under arms
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RIYADH — Abbas Araghchi flew to Beijing on Tuesday not to negotiate but to dictate. By the time Donald Trump steps onto
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{“content”: “ WASHINGTON u2014 The United States has offered Iran a one-page, 14-point memorandum of understanding that accepts what Washington spent three
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TEHRAN — Iran formally launched the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on May 5, 2026, a uniformed bureaucracy with a domain name (PGSA.ir),
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BEIJING — Wang Yi told Abbas Araghchi to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, and Iran’s foreign ministry, posting its own
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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly offered the United States roughly $100 billion in direct war financing, full normalization with Israel,
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WASHINGTON — Trump told NBC on May 4 that “complete dismantlement” of Iran’s nuclear programme is “all I’d accept” — and the
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FUJAIRAH — Iran struck the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone for the second consecutive day on May 5, shutting down the 922,000-barrel-per-day ADNOC
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Table of Contents The Numbers That Cannot Be Spoken Aloud How Did Aramco Post Record-Adjacent Profits on 30% Less Oil? Anatomy of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia condemned “in the strongest terms” Iran’s ongoing strikes against the UAE on May 5, with Crown Prince Mohammed
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RIYADH — Two competing coalitions are trying to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — the American one with guided-missile destroyers and the
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ABU DHABI — Iran struck the VTTI terminal at Fujairah on May 4, the same morning the US Navy launched Project Freedom
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DUBAI — Iran struck an Abu Dhabi state oil company tanker with two drones in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the
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JEDDAH — Two hundred and sixty Iranian pilgrims entered Saudi Arabia on April 25 via the Jadidat Arar land crossing on the
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RIYADH — Iran’s UN ambassador told the Security Council on May 1 that six Arab states — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain,
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