RIYADH — President Trump reviewed a 45-minute CENTCOM briefing on April 30 that included a ground and amphibious seizure of the Strait
MoreRIYADH — Admiral Brad Cooper and General Dan Caine briefed Donald Trump on April 30 on three options for restarting the Iran
MoreRIYADH — Iran’s 14-point Hormuz proposal, transmitted to Washington via Pakistan on the night of May 1, is not a peace offer.
MoreWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on May 1-2, 2026 invoked the Arms Export Control Act emergency waiver to push $8.6
MoreTEHRAN — Iran has roughly three weeks of unused oil storage capacity remaining before its export-blockaded crude inventories saturate, according to Wood
MoreTEHRAN — 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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MoreTEHRAN — Iran does not have a functioning supreme leader. It has three men — Hossein Taeb, Mohsen Rezaei, and Mohammad Bagher
MoreTEHRAN — When Vladimir Putin told Araghchi on April 27 that he had “received a message from the Supreme Leader of Iran,”
MoreDUBAI — A 142-meter superyacht belonging to Russia’s richest man sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on April 25 without a single
MoreJEDDAH — Leaders of all six Gulf Cooperation Council states convened an extraordinary consultative summit in Jeddah on Monday, April 28, 2026
MoreJEDDAH — The first cohort of Iranian Hajj pilgrims landed at Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Medina on April 27,
MoreWASHINGTON — President Trump’s declaration that he is “not happy” with Iran’s three-phase proposal — ceasefire first, Hormuz second, nuclear last —
MoreISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad on Tuesday, April 28, for his third visit in roughly 48 hours,
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MoreWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cancelled a planned Saturday trip by envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad after Iranian Foreign
MoreABU DHABI — Israel secretly deployed a full Iron Dome battery with several dozen IDF operators to the United Arab Emirates during
MoreTEHRAN — Saeed Jalili, the hardline former nuclear negotiator whose six-year tenure at the head of Iran’s P5+1 delegation produced three UN
MoreJEDDAH — Thirty-six thousand Bangladeshi pilgrims have reached Saudi Arabia. Iraqi families are crossing at Jadidat Arar. Indonesia’s first Hajj flights departed
MoreThe 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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MoreJEDDAH — 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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