MUSCAT — Iran formally rejected the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding on June 6, 2026, and simultaneously submitted an alternative proposal through

JEDDAH — Iran filled roughly a third of its Hajj 2026 quota, dispatching approximately 30,000 pilgrims against an allocation of 87,550, and

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president told Iran on live television that it is using his country as a bargaining chip in nuclear negotiations

VIENNA — On June 5, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters that the United States and Iran appeared “pretty close” to

VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency circulated its first assessment of Iran’s nuclear programme since the war began on Thursday, telling

BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem did not just decline the June 4 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. He called it “absurd, humiliating and insulting”

RIYADH — IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi held separate meetings with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Energy Minister Prince

RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan ended fourteen days of public silence on the Iran crisis with a concentrated

DHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline — the Petroline — reached its physical maximum throughput of seven million barrels per day on

WASHINGTON — Iran and the United States are no longer negotiating the same Phase 1. On June 2, Secretary of State Marco

RIYADH — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on June 4 and condemned what

WASHINGTON — Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah met Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department on June

WASHINGTON — Trump told his cabinet on June 4 that an Iran deal could come “this weekend.” The pipeline through which that

BEIRUT — The Lebanon ceasefire formalized on June 4 between the United States, Israel, and Lebanon was built to remove the obstacle

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress on June 3 that President Trump opposes “changes in the status in the

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey held three foreign ministers’ meetings in thirty-one days between March 19 and April 18,

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia killed America’s Hormuz escort mission in early May by suspending US access to Prince Sultan Air Base and

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said in a White House podcast interview published Wednesday that Iran has “already agreed they’re not going to