Washington / London / Tehran — In one of the most significant displays of transatlantic security coordination in recent months, the United States and United Kingdom have jointly imposed sweeping sanctions on an Iran-linked network accused of actively planning kinetic strikes against Western targets and orchestrating the covert transfer of funds across multiple jurisdictions to…
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Donald Trump lands in Beijing on May 14 carrying a packed agenda — Iran, Taiwan, tariffs, tech — and a promise to American farmers that he will bring home a trade win. But on the biggest agricultural commodity of all, the hard truth is already visible in the data: China does not need as many…
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Riyadh / Washington / Beijing — For eight decades, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States has been the load-bearing pillar of Middle Eastern geopolitical order — an alliance built on the foundational exchange of American security guarantees for reliable Saudi oil flows, and sustained through crises, contradictions, and ideological tensions that would…
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The world is at war in the Persian Gulf. Oil is trading above $104 a barrel. Inflation is at a two-year high. And yet the S&P 500 just closed at an all-time record. Welcome to the strangest stock market in a generation — where a global energy crisis and a Wall Street bull run are…
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Jerusalem / Tel Aviv — It was the admission that millions of Israelis have been waiting for — and simultaneously the admission that Israel’s most battle-hardened political survivor had spent eighteen months carefully, calculatedly avoiding. Standing before cameras in a moment that felt less like a press conference and more like a reckoning, Prime Minister…
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Jerusalem / Beijing / Washington — Standing before cameras with the controlled fury that has become his signature posture in the Iran-Israel war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a statement on Sunday that simultaneously complicated ongoing US-Iran diplomatic negotiations, directly accused China of enabling Iranian missile capability, and drew a bright, unambiguous line around what…
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Wall Street enters one of its most consequential weeks of 2026 carrying six straight winning sessions, a fragile Iran peace process teetering on the edge of collapse, and an inflation print that could rewrite the Federal Reserve’s script for the rest of the year. It is the kind of week where three separate macro forces…
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Baghdad / Tel Aviv / Washington — In the annals of modern intelligence operations, few revelations carry the geopolitical weight of what is now emerging from the Iraqi desert: a covert Israeli military installation — operational, strategically positioned, and functioning for an undisclosed period entirely beneath the awareness of the Iraqi government — has been…
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While the world watches the Strait of Hormuz — blockaded, mined, and fought over — Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant has been quietly routing around it. And the numbers tell the story: Aramco has posted a 25% surge in first-quarter profits, turning one of the most disruptive energy crises in modern history into a record-breaking…
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Moscow / Tehran / Washington — In a diplomatic move that is simultaneously bold, self-serving, and genuinely significant, Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed that Russia take custody of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium as a confidence-building measure designed to alleviate dangerously escalating tensions between Tehran and Washington. The proposal — framed publicly in the…