RIYADH — Ali Larijani spent decades navigating the corridors of Iranian power as philosopher, nuclear negotiator, and parliament speaker. On March 17,
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RIYADH — The destruction of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury eliminated the Middle East’s most advanced
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RIYADH — Ukraine’s four-year war against Russian-operated Iranian Shahed drones has produced exactly what the Gulf states now need most: interceptor drones
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BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday rejected expanding the bloc’s naval mission to the Strait of Hormuz,
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DHAHRAN — Iran launched nearly one hundred drones at Saudi Arabia on Monday, the largest single-day barrage since the war began eighteen
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WASHINGTON — The United States is allowing Iranian oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz even as the two countries remain
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most trusted family member in charge. Behind the scenes, however, it was MBS himself who was privately urging Trump to deploy ground
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent the weekend working the phones to assemble a multinational naval coalition to reopen the Strait of
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia called Iran a “sister nation” and condemned American-Israeli strikes against it in June 2025. Nine months later, the
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RIYADH — United States fighter jets struck military facilities near Iran’s Chabahar Free Trade Zone on Monday, according to Voice of America
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LONDON — The world’s attention is fixed on oil. Brent crude at $102. Strategic reserves dwindling. Pipelines running at capacity. But seventeen
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned NATO allies of a “very bad future” if they failed to assist American forces in reopening
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RIYADH — The Iran war has inflicted more economic damage on Gulf states in seventeen days than the entire Covid-19 pandemic did
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DHAHRAN — The International Energy Agency announced on March 11 the largest coordinated release of emergency oil reserves in history — 400
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BRUSSELS — European Union energy ministers gathered in Brussels on March 16 for an emergency session to confront the worst energy price
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RIYADH — The Iran war has cost the United States between $12 billion and $16.5 billion in its first seventeen days, according
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DUBAI — An Iranian drone struck a fuel storage tank near Dubai International Airport early on Monday, igniting a fire that forced
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RIYADH — Sixteen days into the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has intercepted more than 300 drones and dozens of ballistic missiles at
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DHAHRAN — The conventional wisdom about Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu terminal goes something like this: the Kingdom is trapped. With the Strait of
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RIYADH — Iran’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia denied on Saturday that Tehran was responsible for attacks on the Kingdom’s oil infrastructure, telling
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RIYADH — President Donald Trump called on six nations to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz on March 14, promising a
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LONDON — Britain has deployed RAF Typhoon fighter jets and F-35 stealth aircraft to defend Gulf Cooperation Council states against Iranian drone
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MAKKAH — On the night of March 16, 2026, as hundreds of thousands of worshippers packed the Grand Mosque in Mecca for
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told NBC News on Saturday that Iran “wants to make a deal” to end the war launched
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DHAHRAN — Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has achieved in sixteen days what a decade of BRICS summits, petroyuan proposals,
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