NICOSIA — Saudi Arabia was not in the room when the European Union convened Arab leaders at Cyprus’s Filoxenia Conference Centre on

LONDON — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps did not seize a random container ship on April 22. By targeting MSC Francesca —

ISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad late Friday with what IRNA described as a “small delegation” — his

JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia engineered the three-week Lebanon ceasefire extension announced on April 23 without appearing in the room where it was

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump faces a May 1 deadline under the War Powers Resolution to either obtain congressional authorization for the

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is privately lobbying the United States to lift its naval blockade of Iranian ports, and the reason has

MANAMA — The Gulf Cooperation Council’s military coordination apparatus met in Bahrain on April 24 — not as a six-nation summit but

JEDDAH — Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa landed in Jeddah on April 21 for his second Saudi visit in four months, sitting down

DUBAI — Iran laid fresh mines in the Strait of Hormuz during the week of April 21–23, while the ceasefire extension it

RIYADH — South Korea dispatched Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik as a special envoy to Riyadh between April 7 and 14,

TEHRAN — The man who holds the only constitutional authority to override the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps communicates by handwritten notes carried

VIENNA — China, Russia, and Iran jointly met IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Vienna on April 24 — the third trilateral

WASHINGTON — President Trump told reporters from the Oval Office on April 24 that Iran “must” stop financing Hezbollah as a condition

Table of Contents Iran’s Formal Refusal Is the Channel “On Hold” or Dead? From Venue to Enforcer — and Back Again Why

JEDDAH — The most dangerous outcome for Saudi Arabia is not a failed negotiation over the Strait of Hormuz. It is a