Table of Contents What Did Iraq Actually Threaten? The UAE Precedent and OPEC’s Shrinking Core Why Can’t Saudi Arabia Flood the Market
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is assembling a post-war security partnership with Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, and Qatar — four countries that collectively cannot
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RIYADH — The new Saudi-led quintet — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt — is engineered around a single subtraction: the United
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TEHRAN — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s parliament, said on Iranian state television on July 2, 2026, that “talk of IAEA
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BEIJING — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi co-signed language on July 1 endorsing “freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz” in
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s integrated air and missile defense — Patriot PAC-3 batteries, THAAD fire units, and the data-link architecture that binds
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Table of Contents The OPEC Exit as Legal Divorce How Did Saudi Arabia and the UAE Diverge on the Iran War? The
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DOHA — The United States, Iran, and mediators reached a preliminary agreement on July 1 to release $3 billion of frozen Iranian
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RIYADH — Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Tuesday that the United States has “all the cards in the negotiation”
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia launched covert airstrikes on Iranian territory in late March 2026 — the first known direct military action by
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Doha’s West Bay at night from Al Corniche — the city where Iranian and US delegations arrived on June 30 to meet
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VIENNA — Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi declared on June 30 that International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors will not be granted
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DOHA — On Day 13 of the Iran-US memorandum of understanding’s 60-day Phase 2 window, three delegations arrived in Qatar holding three
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BEIJING — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived in Beijing on June 30 for a two-day official visit at the
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency cannot say where Iran’s enriched uranium is. In its June 4 quarterly report, the agency
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DUBAI — The United States and Iran have issued simultaneous, incompatible directives governing passage through the Strait of Hormuz — and the
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DUBAI — Commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapsed to fewer than five AIS-visible vessels on Sunday, down from 70 crossings
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RIYADH — The oral stand-down that Qatar’s Emir Tamim brokered on June 29 between the United States and Iran stopped the missiles.
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MANAMA — Secretary of State Marco Rubio co-signed a joint statement with all six GCC foreign ministers on June 25 committing the
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BAGHDAD — Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein formally invited all six GCC states, Iran, and Iraq to an eight-party regional security summit
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DHAHRAN — A Saudi Aramco helicopter crashed at Ras Tanura at approximately 06:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Saturday, June 28, killing
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened on June 28 that Iran “will no longer exist” if the United States is “forced to
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MANAMA — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck four US military installations across the Gulf on June 27 — Al Udeid Air
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RIYADH — The six GCC foreign ministers who gathered in Manama on June 25 demanded that Iran’s ballistic missiles, drones, and proxy
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TOKYO — Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters at the Japan National Press Club on June
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