Mohammed Omar

VIENNA — On June 5, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters that the United States and Iran appeared “pretty close” to

VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency circulated its first assessment of Iran’s nuclear programme since the war began on Thursday, telling

BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem did not just decline the June 4 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. He called it “absurd, humiliating and insulting”

RIYADH — IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi held separate meetings with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Energy Minister Prince

RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan ended fourteen days of public silence on the Iran crisis with a concentrated

DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline — the Petroline — reached its physical maximum throughput of seven million barrels per day on

WASHINGTON — Iran and the United States are no longer negotiating the same Phase 1. On June 2, Secretary of State Marco

RIYADH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on June 4 and condemned what

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress on June 3 that President Trump opposes “changes in the status in the

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey held three foreign ministers’ meetings in thirty-one days between March 19 and April 18,

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia killed America’s Hormuz escort mission in early May by suspending US access to Prince Sultan Air Base and

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said in a White House podcast interview published Wednesday that Iran has “already agreed they’re not going to

President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the US-Saudi investment forum in Riyadh, May 13, 2025 — the same day

TEHRAN — Iran is preparing a formal rejection of the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding proposal, Reuters reported on June 2, citing

WASHINGTON — Trump announced a Lebanon ceasefire on June 1, 2026. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz denied it existed within hours. Iran’s

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