RIYADH — Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters — the apex joint command coordinating both the Islamic

RIYADH — On Saturday, Tom Barrack sat in Damascus telling Syria’s president that his country was “a laboratory for a new regional

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JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s moon-sighting committee confirmed the crescent of Dhul Hijjah on the evening of May 17, fixing the Day of

RIYADH — Operation Project Freedom lasted thirty-six hours before a phone call from Riyadh killed it. On May 4, two US Navy

TEHRAN — On or around May 10, Major General Ali Abdollahi walked into a meeting with Mojtaba Khamenei and delivered a full

TEHRAN — Mostafa Taheri did not ask Iran’s parliament for permission to send warships into the Strait of Hormuz, or to mine

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia grounded a declared US military operation in under 36 hours. On May 4, Donald Trump announced “Project Freedom”

TEHRAN — On May 15, Iran’s foreign minister told reporters at a BRICS meeting in New Delhi that nuclear talks with the

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi landed in Tehran on Friday for a two-day visit officially framed as peace facilitation between

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RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman killed Project Freedom nine days ago. The New York Times reported on May 16 that Washington and

TEHRAN — Donald Trump sent Iran a new nuclear proposal on May 16, 2026, warning that Tehran must “move quickly, or something

TEHRAN — Iran’s most visible response to President Trump’s May 16, 2026 nuclear ultimatum is a year-old television interview with a man

TEHRAN — Nine months before the strike that killed him, Ali Shamkhani looked into an NBC News camera and said “yes” —

ABU DHABI — When Mohammed bin Zayed called Mohammed bin Salman in the first days of March 2026 to propose a joint

RIYADH — Donald Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as it departed Beijing on May 15, retroactively disowned the ceasefire