RIYADH — Mohammed bin Salman told American evangelical leader Mike Evans that he could recognize Israel “today” and that his father, King
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s defence minister went on live television Monday night and told the country that joining the Abraham Accords “clashes with
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DUBAI — US Central Command struck missile launch sites and destroyed two IRGC fast boats near Bandar Abbas on May 25–26 —
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TEHRAN — On the day two million Muslims stood on the plain of Arafat — the single holiest moment in the Islamic
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RIYADH — Iran did not reject the American deal this week. It let the Islamic calendar do the rejecting. From Tarwiyah Day
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DOHA — Iran’s parliament speaker landed in Qatar on May 25 carrying a $12 billion demand for frozen assets, the same day
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RIYADH — The 60-day US-Iran ceasefire that began April 8 is functioning as Iran’s rearmament window. On May 21, a US official
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump told the leaders of eight countries on Saturday that signing the Abraham Accords is “mandatory” for any nation
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DHAHRAN — Brent crude fell as much as 6.2 per cent on Monday, touching $97.10 a barrel — its first break below
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RIYADH — Bloomberg reported on May 25 that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has scored “unexpected wins” from the Iran war —
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VIENNA — Austria’s Directorate for State Protection and Intelligence published an annual threat assessment concluding that Iran’s nuclear weapons programme is “well
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TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is hidden at an undisclosed location, reachable only through “a labyrinth of couriers,” and even
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TEHRAN — On May 24, a senior White House official told CBS News that Iran had provided “assurances — verbal and in
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RIYADH — The Phase 1 framework between Washington and Tehran, confirmed in detail by Axios on May 24, contains a clause that
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RIYADH — Donald Trump told his negotiators on May 24 not to rush into a deal with Iran because “time is on
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RIYADH — A senior White House official told CBS News on Saturday that Iran had “agreed in principle to dispose of highly
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TEHRAN — Iran’s IRGC-linked Fars News Agency announced on May 24 that “tankers have been suspended from passing through the Strait of
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WASHINGTON — The largest American naval deployment to the Persian Gulf since 1991 is not leaving, and the reason should alarm Riyadh
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Table of Contents What Does the Axios MOU Actually Promise? Why Is the PGSA Suspended, Not Dissolved? The Nasser Deadline Is Already
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RIYADH — A clause in the draft US-Iran memorandum of understanding requiring an end to the war in Lebanon has emerged as
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Table of Contents Did the Houthis Really Strike Three Oceans at Once? What Would a Houthi Mediterranean Strike Mean? Can an Iran
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Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz — the 38-kilometre-wide chokepoint through which approximately 21 million barrels of oil and 120 billion
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RIYADH — Donald Trump declared an agreement with Iran “largely negotiated” on Friday, confirming a framework that extends the ceasefire, reopens the
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MBS joined a seven-nation call urging Trump to accept. The terms include Iranian enrichment rights Riyadh does not possess, a Hormuz reopening
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WASHINGTON — Senator Tom Cotton sent a formal letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday demanding immediate sanctions on Iran’s Persian
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