TEHRAN — The IAEA Board of Governors voted 19-3 on June 10 to censure Iran for its failure to cooperate with international
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VIENNA — The IAEA Board of Governors voted 19–3 on June 10 to censure Iran for failing to account for 440.9 kilograms
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{“content”: “ RIYADH u2014 Iran launched coordinated strikes against US military installations in three countries early on June 10, retaliating for CENTCOM’s
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VIENNA — IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told the Board of Governors on June 8 that his agency has not verified Iran’s
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JEDDAH — Houthi forces struck two commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden on June 8-9, 2026, in the first kinetic enforcement
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco transferred $21.89 billion to shareholders on June 9, the largest quarterly base dividend in its listed history. The
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TEHRAN — Iran’s armed forces announced on Sunday a conditional suspension of military operations against Israel, hours after Israeli jets struck targets
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RIYADH — Iran’s conditional cessation of operations, announced by Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters at approximately 7:30 AM EDT on June 8, restructures
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia holds a seat on the IAEA Board of Governors that opened its June 8–12 session with Director General
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NEOM — Saudi Arabia has budgeted SAR 60 billion ($16 billion) to pay contractors for terminating NEOM agreements over the 2026–2030 period,
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MUSCAT — On May 28, Donald Trump told his Cabinet he would “blow up” Oman if it brokered a joint Strait of
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RIYADH — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s directive to assess whether frozen Iranian assets can fund Gulf reconstruction and Iran’s stated precondition that
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the standing joint operational command that coordinates both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on June 7, 2026, carrying not one letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader
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RIYADH — Every GCC country operating Patriot air defense — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Bahrain — has reached near-zero interceptor
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WASHINGTON — The US Treasury confirmed on June 6 that it is exploring the redirection of Iranian frozen assets to finance reconstruction
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A PAC-3 Patriot missile launches during a live-fire exercise. Each interceptor costs approximately $4 million; Bahrain entered June 6 with an estimated
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WASHINGTON — The State Department approved a $1.98 billion counter-drone sale to Kuwait on June 6 — the same day IRGC missiles
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MUSCAT — Iran formally rejected the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding on June 6, 2026, and simultaneously submitted an alternative proposal through
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JEDDAH — Iran filled roughly a third of its Hajj 2026 quota, dispatching approximately 30,000 pilgrims against an allocation of 87,550, and
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VIENNA — On June 5, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters that the United States and Iran appeared “pretty close” to
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency circulated its first assessment of Iran’s nuclear programme since the war began on Thursday, telling
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BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem did not just decline the June 4 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. He called it “absurd, humiliating and insulting”
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RIYADH — IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi held separate meetings with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Energy Minister Prince
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RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan ended fourteen days of public silence on the Iran crisis with a concentrated
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