RIYADH — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy transmitted a radio warning to USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) during mine clearance
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Table of Contents The $6 Cut What Did Aramco Price Into July? The Loading Window That Does Not Exist Why Is Zero
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VIENNA — The framework that the Trump administration will formalize at Geneva on June 19 was already audited, three days before the
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WASHINGTON — Three days before JD Vance is scheduled to sign a nuclear memorandum of understanding in Geneva, President Donald Trump stood
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ÉVIAN — Six of the world’s leading military powers told the G7 summit on June 16 they would deploy a “strictly defensive
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PARIS — France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Canada issued a joint statement at Évian on June 16 calling the US-Iran
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The Strait of Hormuz as captured by NASA’s MODIS instrument in December 2020. The narrow passage between Iran (top) and the Musandam
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TEHRAN — Hours after Iran signed the Hormuz MOU on June 15, the IRGC Navy radioed a US destroyer conducting mine-clearance operations
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron convened a dedicated Arab-leaders session on the Strait of Hormuz at the G7 summit in Evian
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DUBAI — Saudi Arabia signed two documents in twenty-five days that cannot both be true. The first, dated May 21, 2026, was
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RIYADH — The US-Iran MOU did not resolve whether Iran can charge ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz; it codified the mechanism
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DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia cannot ship crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz for at least forty days after the Islamabad Declaration
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DHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company’s $3.7 billion guaranteed senior debt grace period expired on Monday morning, and not one of the three
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TEHRAN — Iran notified the United Nations on June 15 that non-hostile ships may transit the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia holds no representation in any of the active venues where the United States-Iran memorandum of understanding and Strait
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LONDON — Six hundred vessels sitting at either end of the Strait of Hormuz have become the empirical test of the US-Iran
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Khafji, Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province oil city, photographed from the International Space Station during ISS Expedition 45 (2015). The city sits adjacent
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DHAHRAN — The grace period on Sadara Chemical Company’s $3.7 billion in guaranteed senior debt expired on June 15, 2026, and none
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on June 14 that the United States and Iran had reached a peace deal,
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DHAHRAN — The deal that reopens the Strait of Hormuz sent Brent crude to $80.67 a barrel on June 15 — twenty-seven
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REPLACEMENT MADE RIYADH — Pakistan declared on June 14, 2026, that a US-Iran peace deal had been “reached” and thanked Saudi Arabia
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REPLACEMENT MADE The Palais Lumière in Évian-les-Bains, the Belle Époque spa building (1900–1902) hosting the 52nd G7 summit on June 15–17, 2026.
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TEHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps broadcast an audio warning to all commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz on June
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BEIRUT — Israeli jets struck a Hezbollah communications command center in the Ghobeiry area of Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, on the morning
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REPLACEMENT MADE DHAHRAN — Sadara Chemical Company’s $3.7 billion in guaranteed senior debt exits its five-year grace period tomorrow morning, and neither
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