Mohammed Omar

PARIS — France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Canada issued a joint statement at Évian on June 16 calling the US-Iran

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia holds no representation in any of the active venues where the United States-Iran memorandum of understanding and Strait

Khafji, Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province oil city, photographed from the International Space Station during ISS Expedition 45 (2015). The city sits adjacent

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on June 14 that the United States and Iran had reached a peace deal,

REPLACEMENT MADE RIYADH — Pakistan declared on June 14, 2026, that a US-Iran peace deal had been “reached” and thanked Saudi Arabia

BEIRUT — Israeli jets struck a Hezbollah communications command center in the Ghobeiry area of Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, on the morning

TEHRAN — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated on June 14, 2026 — the day the US-Iran Islamabad MOU was scheduled for

GENEVA — Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei confirmed on Friday that the US-Iran memorandum of understanding will not be signed on

TEHRAN — Iran has designated Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf as its signatory to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding scheduled for signing

VIENNA — The United States cannot simultaneously demand that Iran transfer its enriched uranium out of the country and permit Saudi Arabia

RIYADH — Two publicly available, mutually exclusive versions of the Iran-United States memorandum of understanding now circulate in official channels, and Saudi

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on June 13 that he believes Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has personally approved a memorandum

RIYADH — Three irreconcilable versions of the Iran deal’s status exist simultaneously as the Geneva signing window opens — and Saudi Arabia’s

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared on June 12 that “a final, agreed upon text of the peace deal has

RIYADH — Trump told Fox News on June 11 that the United States would strike Iran again “on Thursday” unless Tehran accepts

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