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F Hadid

F Hadid is an external analyst with experience across Gulf security, Saudi foreign policy, and regional geopolitics. Drawing on years of professional engagement with the Gulf region, Hadid contributes analysis on Saudi bilateral relationships, Gulf Cooperation Council dynamics, and the strategic dimensions of the Kingdom's foreign policy.

Aerial view of Masjid al-Haram, the Grand Mosque of Mecca, showing the Kaaba surrounded by tens of thousands of pilgrims during Hajj season

The Hajj Opens Under an Expired Ceasefire — MBS’s Custodian Title Becomes a Trap

April 22, 2026April 22, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder Block fighter jet in flight over Nanga Parbat

MBS Hosts Sudan’s Burhan in Jeddah After Killing Pakistan Arms Deal

April 21, 2026April 22, 2026
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JEDDAH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Sudan’s military leader Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Jeddah on Monday, a

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Riyadh skyline at dusk showing the King Abdullah Financial District towers and Kingdom Tower, where PIF headquarters oversees $925 billion in assets

Vision 2030 Was Dying Before the First Missile Fell

April 20, 2026
Vision 2030 & Economy

RIYADH — The war gave Mohammed bin Salman something no consultant or quarterly earnings call ever could: a reason to say out

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CMA CGM Zheng He, one of the world's largest container ships operated by CMA CGM, the French carrier whose vessel Everglade was struck by the IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz on April 18, 2026

IRGC Fires on French-Flagged CMA CGM Everglade — First NATO-State Vessel Hit in Hormuz Crisis

April 19, 2026April 19, 2026
Iran War

LONDON — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on the French-flagged container ship CMA CGM Everglade in the Strait of Hormuz on

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Pilgrims in white ihram performing tawaf around the Kaaba at Masjid al-Haram during Hajj 2018, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Pakistan’s 119,000 Pilgrims Are Now the Ceasefire’s Guarantors

April 19, 2026April 19, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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VLCC Aktaia oil tanker at loading terminal — the class of vessel targeted by IRGC gunboats in the Strait of Hormuz

IRGC Fires on Ships It Cleared to Transit Hormuz

April 19, 2026April 19, 2026
Iran War

DUBAI — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on at least two vessels that had received prior IRGC clearance to transit the

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A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber takes off from Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia — the same aircraft that struck Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan in June 2025, producing what Trump now calls Iran's 'nuclear dust.' Photo: US Air Force / Public Domain

Trump Says Iran Will Hand Over “Nuclear Dust.” Bloomberg Says Deal Is in Limbo.

April 18, 2026April 18, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber departs Diego Garcia — the Indian Ocean staging base used for the June 2025 strikes on Fordow,

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IRGC fast attack craft racing at speed in the Persian Gulf — the same class of vessel that fired on a commercial tanker without a VHF challenge on April 18, 2026

IRGC Gunboats Fire on Tanker Without Warning — Iran’s Hormuz “Opening” Collapses in 18 Hours

April 18, 2026April 19, 2026
Iran War

MUSCAT — Two IRGC gunboats fired on a commercial tanker 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman on Friday morning without issuing a

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A crude oil supertanker takes on its payload at the Al Basrah Oil Terminal in the Persian Gulf — one of hundreds of vessels that moved Iranian oil under OFAC General License U before its April 19 expiry

OFAC General License U Expires Tonight With No Renewal — and $90 Brent Has Not Priced It

April 18, 2026April 23, 2026
Energy & Oil

WASHINGTON — At 12:01 a.m. EDT on April 19, the most permissive sanctions waiver ever issued for Iranian crude oil ceases to

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IMF headquarters building Washington DC where Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed the $3 billion deposit rollover at the April 2026 Spring Meetings

Saudi Arabia Rolled Over $3 Billion to Pakistan Five Days Before the Ceasefire Expires

April 18, 2026April 19, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

Changed: True WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia’s Fund for Development signed a $3 billion deposit rollover with the State Bank of Pakistan on

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian seated with Iranian flags in formal interview setting, 2025

The Authorization Ceiling Was a Thesis. Pezeshkian Made It a Confession.

April 17, 2026April 23, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

TEHRAN — Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has done what no sitting Iranian president has done during wartime: he named the generals wrecking

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Riyadh skyline showing the King Abdullah Financial District and Kingdom Tower at sunset, Saudi Arabia

PIF Just Killed the Architecture It Built to Apologise for Khashoggi

April 16, 2026April 16, 2026
Vision 2030 & Economy

RIYADH — The Public Investment Fund spent five point three billion dollars over four years bankrolling a golf league that the average

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NASA MODIS satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz showing Qeshm Island and the narrow Larak corridor, December 2020

The First Ship Through the Blockade Was Sanctioned. The US Navy Let It Pass.

April 14, 2026April 15, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

DUBAI — A sanctioned Chinese tanker carrying 250,000 barrels of methanol sailed through the Strait of Hormuz overnight on the first day

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The Saudi Ministry of Interior building in Riyadh — the distinctive saucer-shaped complex where Saudi security and diplomatic decisions are coordinated

Saudi Arabia Summons Iraqi Ambassador Over Drone Attacks From Iraqi Territory

April 13, 2026April 13, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia summoned Iraqi Ambassador Safia Taleb al-Suhail on Sunday to formally protest drone and missile attacks launched from Iraqi

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A US Navy F-14D Tomcat conducts a maritime security mission over an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf at sunset, 2005

Russian VLCC Arhimeda Caught in US Hormuz Blockade Zone as Moscow’s Shadow Fleet Collides With Its UNSC Veto

April 12, 2026April 12, 2026

LONDON — A Russian-flagged supertanker formerly sanctioned by the US Treasury for shipping Iranian crude sailed through the Strait of Hormuz toward

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NASA MODIS satellite image of the Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait region showing the Persian Gulf, December 2017

Saudi Arabia’s Iraq Summons Is an Article 51 Dossier in Real Time

April 12, 2026April 12, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia summoned Iraq’s ambassador on Saturday and handed her a formal note of protest over drone attacks launched from

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Popular Mobilization Forces fighters with Iranian Revolutionary Guard advisor during Hawija offensive, Iraq 2017

Saudi Arabia Summons Iraq’s Ambassador as Islamabad Collapses — The Proxy Corridor Riyadh Refused to Name in 2019

April 12, 2026April 12, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia summoned Iraq’s ambassador on April 12, 2026 — the first time Riyadh has formally held Baghdad accountable for

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Armed US Navy sailor stands watch aboard a guided-missile destroyer transiting the Strait of Hormuz, May 2023

Trump Signals Naval Blockade of Iran After Islamabad Talks Collapse

April 12, 2026April 12, 2026
Iran War

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on April 12, 2026, shared a Just the News article on Truth Social advocating a US naval

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Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder Block III fighter jet on tarmac — the aircraft at the centre of the $2 billion debt-for-jets swap proposed in Islamabad’s security negotiations with Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia and Qatar Paid $5 Billion for Pakistan’s Military Deployment, Not Its Mediation

April 12, 2026April 12, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

ISLAMABAD — Saudi Arabia and Qatar jointly pledged $5 billion to Pakistan on April 12, the morning after the first direct US-Iran

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi at agency headquarters in Vienna — diplomatic talks that prefigure the Islamabad framework Iran brought to US negotiations in April 2026

Vance Declares Final Offer After 21 Hours. Iran Lists Four Conditions He Cannot Accept.

April 12, 2026April 12, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

ISLAMABAD — Vice President JD Vance stood at a lectern inside the Serena Hotel on Saturday, spoke for four minutes, declared the

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US Department of State building Washington DC, 23rd Street entrance — headquarters of American diplomacy hosting Lebanon-Israel talks

Washington Lebanon Talks Open Second Track With Eight Days to Deadline

April 11, 2026April 11, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

Table of Contents Two Tracks, No Synchronization What Does Lebanon Mean to Iran? The Washington Meeting That Cannot Agree on Its Own

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Azadi Tower illuminated at night in Tehran, Iran — the symbolic heart of the Islamic Republic that Mojtaba Khamenei now directs by audio relay

Khamenei Is Not Incapacitated — He Is Directing Iran’s Islamabad Delegation by Audio Relay

April 11, 2026April 11, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

Tehran’s Azadi Tower at night — the Islamic Republic’s most recognisable monument, in the capital where Mojtaba Khamenei has directed Iran’s ceasefire

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SATORP joint refinery at Jubail Industrial City, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia — one of eight energy facilities struck by IRGC drone and missile attacks in April 2026

IRGC Strikes Eight Saudi Energy Facilities During Islamabad Talks Opening as Kuwait Becomes First GCC State to Name Iran

April 11, 2026April 11, 2026
Defence & Security/Iran War

ISLAMABAD — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck at least eight Saudi energy facilities across a 48-hour window ending April 10, killing

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PAC-3 Patriot missile launches from a mobile launcher during a US Army test fire at White Sands, a plume of fire and smoke illuminating the desert at dusk

The $7 Billion PAC-3 Mobilization Arrives in 2028. Saudi Arabia’s 400 Rounds Must Last Until Then.

April 11, 2026April 12, 2026
Defence & Security

WASHINGTON — Three overlapping US defense contracts worth more than $7 billion will triple PAC-3 MSE interceptor production — but not until

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United States Capitol building, Washington D.C. — the War Powers Resolution of 1973 gives Congress authority to compel troop withdrawals after 60 days, a clock that expires April 29 for US forces operating PAC-3 batteries in Saudi Arabia.

The War Powers Clock Expires April 29. Saudi Arabia’s Air Defense Expires With It.

April 10, 2026April 10, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

WASHINGTON — The War Powers Resolution gives the president 60 days to wage war without Congressional authorization. President Trump filed his notification

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