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MUSCAT — On May 13, a delegation led by Abbas Baqerpour, director general for International Legal Affairs at Iran’s Foreign Ministry, sat

ISTANBUL — Iran sent deputy foreign ministers to negotiate with Europe in Istanbul this week while simultaneously routing a revised nuclear proposal

TEHRAN — On or around May 10, Major General Ali Abdollahi walked into a meeting with Mojtaba Khamenei and delivered a full

MUSCAT — Four days before Donald Trump lands in Riyadh to sign a civil nuclear energy deal that does not expressly forbid

TEHRAN — When Mohammad Mokhber, identified across Mehr News Agency’s May 8 broadcast as an adviser to Supreme Leader Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei,

CHANGED {“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Saudi Arabia stopped Project Freedom on May 5, killed it inside thirty-six hours, and watched on May

CHANGED: True {“content”: “ WASHINGTON u2014 Operation Epic Fury struck Iran’s enrichment facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and the Isfahan metallurgy complex beginning

Contents What Does Qatar Mean by “Frozen Conflict”? The Decisiveness Summit That Decided Nothing Why Can Qatar Survive a Frozen Hormuz and

WASHINGTON — The War Powers Resolution clock expires on May 1 — five days from now — and the man with the

ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi landed at Nur Khan airbase late Friday carrying what Pakistani officials described as a written

DUBAI — Iran laid fresh mines in the Strait of Hormuz during the week of April 21–23, while the ceasefire extension it

Table of Contents Iran’s Formal Refusal Is the Channel “On Hold” or Dead? From Venue to Enforcer — and Back Again Why

JEDDAH — The ceasefire expired at midnight, the first Indonesian pilgrims boarded their Hajj flights from Jakarta, and the IRGC seized two

JEDDAH — Pakistan’s 119,000 Hajj pilgrims are now inside Saudi Arabia’s wartime Makkah cordon, and their physical presence has done what no