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Mohammed Omar

Mohammed Omar is the Senior Editor and Lead Analyst at House of Saud, the leading independent English-language publication covering the Saudi royal family and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He specialises in royal family succession dynamics, intra-family power structures, and Gulf geopolitics. With years of expertise in Saudi Arabian affairs, Mohammed leads editorial operations and serves as the publication's principal analyst on Saudi political dynamics. His in-depth profiles and succession analysis form the backbone of House of Saud's coverage, providing authoritative insight into one of the world's most consequential royal families.

NASA MODIS satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz showing the 21-nautical-mile chokepoint between the Musandam Peninsula (Oman) and Iranian coastline, with the Gulf of Oman opening to the right

Trump’s 45-Minute Hormuz Briefing and Saudi Arabia’s Indispensability Trap

May 3, 2026May 7, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

RIYADH — President Trump reviewed a 45-minute CENTCOM briefing on April 30 that included a ground and amphibious seizure of the Strait

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Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman at a Pentagon bilateral exchange with Secretary Hegseth, February 24 2025 — the same relationship now at the center of US requests for Saudi basing support

Trump’s Three Iran Options All Run Through Saudi Territory

May 2, 2026May 3, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

RIYADH — Admiral Brad Cooper and General Dan Caine briefed Donald Trump on April 30 on three options for restarting the Iran

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Strait of Hormuz and Musandam Peninsula from NASA MODIS satellite, December 2018 — the 21-mile chokepoint through which Iran's 14-point proposal claims administrative authority, while the IRGC Navy declares operational control

Iran’s 14-Point Proposal Is Not a Peace Offer — It Is an Authorization Ceiling Document

May 2, 2026May 6, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

RIYADH — Iran’s 14-point Hormuz proposal, transmitted to Washington via Pakistan on the night of May 1, is not a peace offer.

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PAC-2 Patriot interceptor missile fires from M903 launching station during Tenacious Archer 25 live-fire exercise, Palau, August 2025

Rubio’s $8.6 Billion Emergency Arms Package Skipped Saudi Arabia

May 2, 2026May 3, 2026
Defence & Security

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on May 1-2, 2026 invoked the Arms Export Control Act emergency waiver to push $8.6

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Kharg Island oil terminal from the International Space Station, showing circular storage tanks and loading jetties in the Persian Gulf

Iran’s Oil Storage Ceiling Three Weeks Out as US Sanctions Qingdao Haiye Terminal

May 2, 2026May 3, 2026
Energy & Oil

TEHRAN — Iran has roughly three weeks of unused oil storage capacity remaining before its export-blockaded crude inventories saturate, according to Wood

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NASA MODIS satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz showing the narrow passage between Iran and Oman, December 2020

The Directive and the Deal: Mojtaba Khamenei’s Dual-Track Architecture for Hormuz

May 2, 2026May 6, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

TEHRAN — On the evening of May 1, Iran submitted a revised 14-point peace proposal to the United States via Pakistan offering

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Bab el-Mandeb Strait satellite image showing 18-mile-wide chokepoint between Africa (left) and Yemen (right) with Perim Island in center

Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu Bypass Is About to Lose the Only Strait That Made It Work

April 29, 2026May 4, 2026
Energy & Oil

Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu Bypass Is About to Lose the Only Strait That Made It Work DHAHRAN — The architecture that was supposed

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Sagadril-1 jack-up oil rig at Abu Dhabi Corniche port, UAE

UAE Exits OPEC After 59 Years, Stripping Saudi Arabia of Its Last Enforcement Lever

April 29, 2026May 5, 2026
Energy & Oil

UAE Exits OPEC After 59 Years, Stripping Saudi Arabia of Its Last Enforcement Lever ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates formally

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Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder Block III multirole fighter at air show with Pakistan national markings

Saudi Arabia Blocked Pakistan’s $1.5 Billion Sudan Arms Deal

April 29, 2026April 29, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia blocked Pakistan’s $1.5 billion arms deal with Sudan’s military government on April 20, withdrawing the financing that made

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OPEC headquarters building entrance, Vienna, Austria, showing the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries sign and logo

Saudi Arabia Inherits an OPEC It Cannot Operate

April 29, 2026May 4, 2026
Energy & Oil

{“content”: “ ABU DHABI u2014 The United Arab Emirates ended 58 years of OPEC membership on April 28, and the immediate question

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Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman at night from the International Space Station, 261 miles above Iran, showing the Strait of Hormuz region

Three Men, No Authority: Iran’s Troika Cannot Deliver the Hormuz Deal Saudi Arabia Needs

April 29, 2026May 2, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

TEHRAN — Iran does not have a functioning supreme leader. It has three men — Hossein Taeb, Mohsen Rezaei, and Mohammad Bagher

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Putin meets Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi at the Kremlin in April 2025 — the same diplomatic channel used for St. Petersburg talks on April 27, 2026

Khamenei’s Message Reached Moscow. It Cannot Reach Vahidi.

April 28, 2026April 29, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

TEHRAN — When Vladimir Putin told Araghchi on April 27 that he had “received a message from the Supreme Leader of Iran,”

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ISS photograph of the Strait of Hormuz showing Qeshm Island and Larak Island, site of the IRGC-designated 5-nautical-mile transit corridor declared in February 2026

Mordashov’s Superyacht Sailed Through Hormuz Unchallenged. That’s the Blockade Working.

April 28, 2026April 29, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

DUBAI — A 142-meter superyacht belonging to Russia’s richest man sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on April 25 without a single

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GCC leaders and President Biden at the Jeddah Security and Development Summit, July 2022 — all six Gulf Cooperation Council member states represented alongside Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan

GCC Leaders Convene First Wartime Summit as Hormuz Proposal Divides Gulf and Washington

April 28, 2026April 29, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

JEDDAH — Leaders of all six Gulf Cooperation Council states convened an extraordinary consultative summit in Jeddah on Monday, April 28, 2026

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Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia at night — the pilgrim destination for Iranian Hajj arrivals beginning April 27, 2026

Iranian Pilgrims Arrive in Medina on Day 60, Inverting Saudi Arabia’s Wartime Deterrence Calculus

April 28, 2026May 2, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

JEDDAH — The first cohort of Iranian Hajj pilgrims landed at Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Medina on April 27,

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NASA MODIS satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz showing the narrow chokepoint between the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

Trump’s “Not Happy” Declaration and the Sequencing Wall Neither Side Can Remove

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s declaration that he is “not happy” with Iran’s three-phase proposal — ceasefire first, Hormuz second, nuclear last —

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NASA MODIS satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz at its narrowest point between Iran and Oman — the waterway carrying roughly 20% of global oil supply before the war

Araghchi Files Third Islamabad Draft in 48 Hours

April 28, 2026April 29, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

ISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad on Tuesday, April 28, for his third visit in roughly 48 hours,

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the European Commission headquarters, December 2025

Merz Called It Humiliation — And Gave Saudi Arabia the Cover It Cannot Build Alone

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

{“content”: “ Table of Contents n n n n A Chancellor in a Classroom n What Did Merz Actually Say About Iran

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USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier underway in the Arabian Sea, part of the US carrier strike group deployed to the US 5th Fleet area of responsibility

Witkoff and Kushner Were Never Going to Islamabad

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cancelled a planned Saturday trip by envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad after Iranian Foreign

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Iron Dome interceptor missile launches at night during Operation Protective Edge, Israel

Israel Secretly Deployed Iron Dome to UAE With IDF Operators During Iran War

April 27, 2026April 28, 2026
Defence & Security

ABU DHABI — Israel secretly deployed a full Iron Dome battery with several dozen IDF operators to the United Arab Emirates during

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Saeed Jalili, Iran nuclear negotiator and head of the Stability Front (Paydari), speaking during a 2021 interview with the Iranian flag visible behind him

Jalili Set to Replace Ghalibaf as Iran Nuclear Talks Lead

April 27, 2026April 27, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

TEHRAN — Saeed Jalili, the hardline former nuclear negotiator whose six-year tenure at the head of Iran’s P5+1 delegation produced three UN

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Aerial night view of Masjid al-Haram and the Kaaba in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, showing the open courtyard where 1.2 to 1.8 million pilgrims gather during Hajj

The Pilgrims Are on the Ground. The Shield Is 86% Empty.

April 27, 2026May 7, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

JEDDAH — Thirty-six thousand Bangladeshi pilgrims have reached Saudi Arabia. Iraqi families are crossing at Jadidat Arar. Indonesia’s first Hajj flights departed

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Golden dome of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran

Mashhad Mural Places Iran’s Supreme Leader Among the Dead as Putin Claims to Have Received His Message

April 27, 2026April 28, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

The golden dome of the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, where the “Martyrs of the Epic Struggle” mural depicting Mojtaba Khamenei alongside

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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan meets with US Secretary of State Blinken in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s Week of Structured Ambiguity

April 27, 2026April 28, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

Table of Contents The Cabinet’s Register Shift What Did Saudi Arabia Signal in a Single Week? Thirty Thousand Pilgrims as Statecraft The

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Aerial view of Masjid al-Haram, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, with pilgrims performing tawaf around the Kaaba during Hajj

Iran Sends 30,000 Hajj Pilgrims to Saudi Arabia at Zero Military Cost

April 27, 2026April 28, 2026
Diplomacy & Geopolitics

JEDDAH — The first group of Iranian Hajj pilgrims landed at Medina’s Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport on April 25, 2026,

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