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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.

Main entrance of King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh, one of four refurbished venues retained in Saudi Arabia's revised 2034 World Cup plan

Saudi Arabia Won the World Cup Bid With a Stadium It Now Plans to Drop

October 14, 2026October 18, 2026
Vision 2030 & Economy

NEOM — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is preparing to drop five of the fifteen stadiums it proposed for the 2034 FIFA

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IMF headquarters building in Washington DC — the institution that published the October 2026 World Economic Outlook projecting Saudi Arabia GDP contraction of 3.3 percent

Vision 2030 Was Built for Low Oil, Not for War

October 13, 2026October 15, 2026
Vision 2030 & Economy

{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 The International Monetary Fund’s October 2026 World Economic Outlook projects Saudi Arabia’s GDP will contract 3.3 percent in

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Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman meets with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak at the Russian Energy Week 2025 conference, Saudi and Russian flags on the table

What Response Has Saudi Arabia Not Already Tried?

October 12, 2026October 14, 2026
Defence & Security

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has no military response available that it has not already tried, and the promised answer that its Energy

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Oil waste burn-off at Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura facility, 1959 — black smoke column over the Saudi desert

The Houthis Targeted What Riyadh Spent Seven Years Defending

October 12, 2026October 15, 2026
Energy & Oil

DHAHRAN — On October 11, Yemen’s Houthi forces claimed their missiles and drones struck Saudi Aramco facilities at Shedgum and Tanajib —

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A US Army PAC-3 Patriot missile launcher deployed in operational configuration at sunrise, representing the air defence systems central to Saudi Arabia's ballistic missile defence

Trump Said the Saudis Can Defend Themselves as Twelve Died at Their Airport

October 11, 2026October 16, 2026
Defence & Security

Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said the October 8 attack was the first on King Khalid International

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Riyadh King Abdullah Financial District towers at night, with KAFD headquarters illuminated and the full moon rising over the Saudi capital skyline

Riyadh Built the Congress — the War Built the Agenda

October 10, 2026October 15, 2026
Energy & Oil

Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said a Houthi missile destroyed a Saudia Airbus A320 at the gate

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President Trump speaks at White House podium alongside Defense Secretary Hegseth during media briefing on Iran operations, April 2026

Trump Reversed on Iran and Gave Riyadh a Summit It Cannot Explain

October 9, 2026October 15, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

RIYADH — On October 7, two administration officials told The Atlantic that the White House had asked the Pentagon to develop options

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US Army PAC-3 Patriot missile launcher in fully deployed firing position, 5th Battalion 7th Air Defense Artillery, DEFENDER-Europe 21 exercise, Croatia 2021

Houthi Attacks on King Khalid Airport Killed a Resident and Tested Riyadh’s Defences

October 8, 2026October 12, 2026
Defence & Security

Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article dated to October 8 a Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport

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Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing on Marine One, Saturday, October 3, 2026. White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian / Public domain

Trump Tied the War’s End to the Midterms. Riyadh’s New Pact Has No Timetable

October 7, 2026October 13, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump stood inside a Maryland shipyard on October 6 and framed the war with Iran as something to be

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, with US and Saudi flags displayed between them

Rubio Reaffirmed the Shield — Riyadh Activated Another

October 6, 2026October 14, 2026
Defence & Security

Correction, October 12, 2026: An earlier version of this article said King Salman condemned the targeting of Mecca in a UN General

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The Saudi Aramco supertanker AbQaiq, named after the kingdom's largest oil processing facility, docked at an offshore crude oil loading terminal in the Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia relies on offshore terminals like this to export crude that bypasses the bottleneck at the Yanbu Red Sea terminal.

Saudi Q1 GDP Shows 0.2% Private Non-Oil Growth as Deficit Hits Record

May 23, 2026July 5, 2026
Energy & Oil

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Q1 2026 GDP release looks like vindication for Vision 2030: non-oil activity up 2.8% year-on-year while the oil

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Strait of Hormuz photographed from the Space Shuttle showing ship wakes and oil slicks in the Persian Gulf, the worlds most critical oil transit chokepoint

Aramco Has 25 Days Before the Oil Market Slips to 2027

May 22, 2026May 25, 2026
Energy & Oil

DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser has given the oil market a date: if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen

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Satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz and Oman's Musandam Peninsula, showing Iran's coastline to the north and the 21-nautical-mile chokepoint dividing their overlapping territorial seas

Iran and Oman Are Writing the Rules for Hormuz. Saudi Arabia Has No Seat.

May 21, 2026May 24, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addresses international media at a diplomatic meeting, representing Iran in multilateral nuclear negotiations

Iran Is Negotiating With Europe So Europe Will Negotiate With America

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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Satellite view of Tehran, Iran — the city of ten million at the centre of Iran wartime command structure

Mojtaba Met Iran’s War Commander. The Ceasefire Died in That Room.

May 17, 2026May 17, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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Satellite view of Muscat, Oman — the Gulf capital where four rounds of US-Iran indirect nuclear talks have been hosted by Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi

Iran’s Enrichment Consortium Is a Sovereignty Trap — and It Was Tabled Four Days Before Trump Landed in Riyadh

May 11, 2026May 13, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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Strait of Hormuz satellite view, NASA MODIS December 2020 — the chokepoint Iran has framed as a deterrent equivalent to a nuclear program, with Hormuz transit volume at 191 vessels in April against a pre-war baseline of 3,000 monthly

Iran Has Declared Hormuz Its Nuclear Deterrent

May 10, 2026May 23, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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NASA MODIS satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz showing Qeshm Island, Bandar Abbas approaches, and the Gulf of Oman entrance where US destroyers transited on May 7, 2026

Riyadh’s Veto Stopped at the Waterline — and CENTCOM Noticed

May 8, 2026May 11, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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Barakah nuclear power plant Abu Dhabi UAE — two APR-1400 reactor domes under construction in 2017 under the Gold Standard 123 agreement that prohibited enrichment and reprocessing

Iran Lost Its Nuclear Programme. Saudi Arabia Is About to Get One.

May 3, 2026May 13, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC-controlled northern shipping corridor, photographed by NASA satellite

Trump Posts Gun Image Warning Iran as Tehran Asserts Hormuz Sovereignty Rights

April 29, 2026May 3, 2026
Iran War

RIYADH — Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself carrying an assault rifle at 4 AM on April 29, captioned “NO

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Qatar Amiri Diwan government seat Doha at dusk with Qatari flag

Qatar Named the Failure Mode. Saudi Arabia Is Living It.

April 29, 2026April 29, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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Fiber-optic guided FPV drone in flight with cable spool and trailing fiber-optic wire visible — Ukraine, 2025

Kuwait Border Attack From Iraq Opens Northern Threat Gap the GCC Cannot Close

April 29, 2026April 29, 2026
Defence & Security

KUWAIT CITY — Two fiber-optic wire-guided explosive drones launched from Iraqi territory struck two of Kuwait’s northern land border posts on April

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Riyadh skyline at sunset showing the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) towers under construction and the iconic Kingdom Tower, the physical embodiment of Saudi Vision 2030’s economic transformation ambitions

Vision 2030 at Ten: 93% of Targets Met, but the Treasury Still Runs on Oil

April 28, 2026July 5, 2026
Vision 2030 & Economy

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 turned ten on April 25 with a report card that would satisfy any boardroom — 93%

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US Capitol dome illuminated at dusk against deep blue sky, Statue of Freedom atop the Tholos visible, symbolizing congressional war powers authority

The War Powers Clock: What Trump Must Do by May 1 — and What Saudi Arabia Loses Under Each Option

April 26, 2026April 28, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

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

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A crude oil supertanker loads at the Al Basrah Oil Terminal in the Persian Gulf. Iran now collects transit tolls on vessels using the Strait of Hormuz, with the first revenues deposited into the Central Bank of Iran in April 2026.

Iran Banks First Hormuz Toll Revenue at Central Bank

April 26, 2026April 27, 2026
Energy & Oil

TEHRAN — Iran’s Deputy Parliament Speaker Hamidreza Hajibabaei announced on April 23 that the first revenues collected under the Strait of Hormuz

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