Table of Contents Ambassador-Level Talks at Foggy Bottom What Did Israel Actually Agree To? Iran’s Lebanon Precondition and the Islamabad Bind Can
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BEIRUT — Hezbollah fired missiles at the Israeli naval base in the port of Ashdod on April 10, 2026, striking approximately 90
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ISLAMABAD — Senior IRGC commanders publicly declared Iran’s ballistic missile program off-limits to negotiators on April 8 and 9, constraining the mandate
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Table of Contents The Declaration and Its Timing What Did the IRGC Actually Announce on April 10? Four Independent Legal Bases for
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia helped build the ceasefire architecture that is now draining its treasury at a rate of roughly $78 million
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RIYADH — The $9 billion PAC-3 MSE sale approved by the State Department on January 30, 2026, will not deliver a single
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Table of Contents What Kuwait Said — and What It Cited Wave 95: The Strikes Iran Says Did Not Happen Why Did
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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s survival thesis since February 28 has rested on a single pipeline: the 1,201-km East-West Petroline from Abqaiq to
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s state media on April 10 categorically denied that any Iranian negotiating team had arrived in Pakistan for scheduled ceasefire
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DHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company, the $20 billion Aramco-Dow joint venture that was once the largest project finance deal in Middle Eastern
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WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on April 9 that he had instructed his ambassador to begin direct negotiations with
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JEDDAH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan spoke by telephone with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on April 9, 2026
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The ceasefire was nine hours old when the bombs fell on Corniche al-Mazraa. It was rush hour in one of Beirut’s busiest
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DHAHRAN — Goldman Sachs published a Q2 Brent forecast of $90 per barrel on April 8, cut from $99, on the strength
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ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates on April 8 formally demanded that Iran be “held accountable and fully liable for damages
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Table of Contents Who Ghalibaf Is What Are the Three Violations Ghalibaf Claims? Why Did Vance Call Three Violations “Quite a Lot
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WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt produced three contradictory formulations of the Trump administration’s position on an Iran-US Strait of
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JEDDAH — The two-week ceasefire agreed on April 7 expires on approximately April 21. Indonesia’s first Hajj charter departs April 22. Between
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told ABC News on April 8, 2026, that the United States is considering operating the Strait of
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The ceasefire is real. The agreement behind it may not be. At 6:32 p.m. Eastern on April 7, less than ninety minutes
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The guns stopped at 2:02 a.m. Tehran time. Forty days after the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury with the
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s ten-point peace plan, published through the SNSC-affiliated Nour News agency on April 8, demands the withdrawal of all US
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme National Security Council accepted a two-week ceasefire on April 7, crediting the “guidance” of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei,
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DUBAI — Iran permitted between 15 and 20 vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz in the first 24 hours after the
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DHAHRAN — The United States struck more than 50 military targets on Kharg Island on April 7, the second systematic destruction of
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