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The Houthis struck two Saudi tankers while allowing two Chinese-owned tankers carrying Saudi oil to transit Bab al-Mandeb. Enforcement of the announced blockade may be selective but uncertainty remains over how additional Chinese tankers loading at Yanbu will be treated.
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The Houthis struck two Saudi tankers while allowing two Chinese-owned tankers carrying Saudi oil to transit Bab al-Mandeb. Enforcement of the announced blockade may be selective but uncertainty remains over how additional Chinese tankers loading at Yanbu will be treated.
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King Salman had a lung infection and that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman postponed a planned visit to Japan to remain with him.
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They struck two Saudi tankers yesterday, but allowed two Chinese-owned tankers carrying Saudi oil to pass through Bab al Mandeb - though those were loaded at Saudi's Yanbu port before the Houthis announced their blockade.
The Houthis struck two Saudi tankers while allowing two Chinese-owned tankers carrying Saudi oil to transit Bab al-Mandeb. Enforcement of the announced blockade may be selective but uncertainty remains over how additional Chinese tankers loading at Yanbu will be treated.
Open source reportIf Trump doesn't walk back his new condition, MBS will certainly back out of this week's deal, which was over 20 years in the making.
Crown Prince MBS will abandon the agreement unless Trump removes the normalization condition, citing Saudi opposition to recognizing Israel during the Gaza war.
Open source reportLess than 24 hours after it was signed, Pres. Trump added a new condition requiring Saudi to join the Abraham Accords - and thus normalize relations with Israel - in exchange for U.S. permission and help building a civilian nuclear program.
President Trump added a requirement that Saudi Arabia join the Abraham Accords and normalize relations with Israel in exchange for U.S. approval and assistance for a civilian nuclear program. The condition was added less than 24 hours after the deal was signed.
Open source reportYemen's Houthi rebels struck two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea yesterday, making good on their threats to enforce a "maritime embargo" on Saudi Arabia.
Houthi forces struck two Saudi oil tankers; to have turned back ten ships. Shipping data showed at least six vessels reversing course after the Houthis announced a blockade.
Open source reportAnalysts say the possibility that Saudi could make its own nuclear fuel raises the risk that it could divert its nuclear resources towards a weapons program.
Analysts’ concern that Saudi fuel-production capacity could enable diversion toward weapons and could affect Iranian expectations in future nuclear negotiations with Washington.
Open source reportthe U.S. and Saudi Arabia signed a deal yesterday allowing Saudi to build a civilian nuclear program using American technology and know-how.
The agreement permits a Saudi civilian nuclear program using U.S. technology and expertise and requires congressional review. Saudi Arabia rejected restrictions on domestic fuel production and expanded short-notice IAEA inspections.
Open source reportThe U.S. plans to announce a deal to allow Saudi Arabia to build a civilian nuclear program imminently.
The United States plans to announce an agreement allowing Saudi Arabia to establish a civilian nuclear program.
Open source reportThe Houthis recently reopened a long-frozen conflict with Saudi Arabia, and seem ready to join their sponsor's side in a regional war.
The Houthis recently reopened a previously frozen conflict with Saudi Arabia. Its assertion that the group appears ready to enter a wider regional war on Iran’s side is an assessment.
Open source reportAraghchi's diplomatic outreach suggests that moderates like him are seeking an off ramp even as hardliners escalate their aggressive rhetoric.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi communicated with counterparts in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Oman and called Pakistani army chief Field Marshal Munir. The outreach indicates Iranian moderates are seeking de-escalation.
Open source reportDespite the war and Iran's strikes on regional rivals like Saudi Arabia, around 1.7 million Muslims took part in this year's pilgrimage.
Approximately 1.7 million Muslims participated in the pilgrimage despite the war and Iranian strikes on regional rivals including Saudi Arabia.
Open source reportBoth Saudi and the UAE seem keen to resolve their differences politely and behind closed doors rather than through proxies in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia is managing tensions carefully because the UAE supports the STC, and that both governments prefer to resolve their differences privately rather than through proxy escalation in Yemen.
Open source reportThat said, even if PIF lacks the cash, Saudi has ample other sources of capital that MBS is eager to invest abroad.
Saudi Arabia has other sources of capital that could be invested abroad even if the Public Investment Fund lacks sufficient liquidity.
Open source reportNew media reports suggest that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) may not have enough dry powder to make good on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's (MBS's) pledge to invest $1 trillion in the U.S. over the next four years.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund may have limited available cash after committing much of its estimated $1 trillion portfolio to projects that are not yet producing returns.
Open source reportPres. Trump addressed an investment conference in Riyadh... criticizing decades of U.S. nation-building and intervention in other countries and declaring that the U.S. will no longer be "giving you lectures on how to live."
Trump's Riyadh speech is rejecting decades of U.S. nation-building and intervention. Critics of intervention welcomed the approach, while some activists feared diminished U.S. pressure would weaken human-rights protections.
Open source reportPres. Trump unexpectedly announced an end to all U.S. sanctions on Syria... Trump then met with Syria's interim president, Ahmed Al Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia.
President Trump announced an end to U.S. sanctions on Syria and subsequently met interim Syrian President Ahmed Al Sharaa in Saudi Arabia. Trump encouraged Al Sharaa to normalize relations with Israel; him as open to joining the Abraham Accords at an unspecified future time.
Open source reportThe U.S. and Saudi are considering a deal that would give Saudi access to U.S. nuclear technology - and could let Saudi enrich its own uranium in the future.
Washington and Riyadh were considering an agreement granting Saudi Arabia access to U.S. nuclear technology and potentially allowing future domestic uranium enrichment. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was quoted as saying a pathway appeared to exist despite unclear details.
Open source reportU.S. officials in Riyadh will also meet with Russian officials today. Russia has already agreed to the pause on energy infrastructure strikes, so these meetings will seek to advance an additional maritime ceasefire.
U.S. officials were due to meet Russian officials in Riyadh on March 24 to seek a maritime ceasefire in addition to the proposed pause on energy-infrastructure strikes.
Open source reportUkrainian and U.S. officials met in Riyadh yesterday, and may continue their summit today. They aim to finalize details surrounding the 30-day pause on striking energy infrastructure.
U.S. and Ukrainian officials met in Riyadh on March 23 and could continue talks on March 24 to finalize a proposed 30-day pause in attacks on energy infrastructure.
Open source reportThe White House said its negotiators will continue to meet Ukrainian teams in Saudi Arabia to seek a Black Sea truce "in the coming days," and hoped to eventually reach a full ceasefire plan
According to the White House plans for additional U.S.-Ukraine meetings in Saudi Arabia aimed at securing, a Black Sea truce and eventually a broader ceasefire acceptable to Ukraine and Russia.
Open source reportU.S. and Ukrainian officials will meet in Saudi Arabia starting tomorrow. Pres. Zelensky is in Saudi and said he was "fully committed" to negotiating an end to the war, but he won't participate in the U.S.-Ukrainian meetings
U.S. and Ukrainian officials will begin talks in Saudi Arabia the following day. Zelensky will meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman separately while Ukrainian delegates meet Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other U.S. officials.
Open source reportU.S. and Ukrainian officials will meet in Saudi Arabia starting tomorrow. Pres. Zelensky is in Saudi and said he was "fully committed" to negotiating an end to the war, but he won't participate in the U.S.-Ukrainian meetings
U.S. and Ukrainian officials would begin talks in Saudi Arabia on March 11. Zelensky was expected to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman separately for economic discussions rather than attend the delegation-level talks.
Open source reportAl Sisi's plan is said to call on Arab states to contribute up to to $20 billion to rebuild Gaza.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi planned to present a proposal calling for up to $20 billion in Arab funding to rebuild Gaza. An off-record claim that Trump accepted the plan as an alternative to Palestinian resettlement.
Open source reportSenior U.S. and Russian delegations - led by SecState Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov - met in Saudi Arabia yesterday for the most significant direct talks between their countries in years.
Delegations led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed a path toward ending the Ukraine war and potential geopolitical and economic cooperation while U.S. sanctions remained in place.
Open source reportThe UN Convention to Combat Desertification meets in Riyadh today through Dec. 13.
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is meeting in Riyadh from Dec. 2 through Dec. 13, 2024.
Open source reportIt was the harshest public criticism any Saudi official has made about the war, and perhaps a sign of Saudi's warming consideration for Iran
The remarks are unusually harsh Saudi criticism of Israel and a possible indication of improving Saudi consideration toward Iran.
Open source reportSaudi Arabia's Crown Prince MBS condemned Israel for committing "genocide" in Gaza and warned Israel against possible future direct strikes on Iran.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and warned it against potential direct attacks on Iran.
Open source reportSaudi Arabia is on the verge of approving a plan to invest up to $2 billion in a hostile takeover of the disorganized array of global professional men's boxing promoters and sanctioning bodies.
A report that Saudi Arabia was close to approving an investment of up to $2 billion to combine major men’s boxing promoters, sanctioning bodies and around 200 boxers under one entity.
Open source reportSaudi's King Salman is suffering from a lung infection and it's severe enough that his son, Crown Prince MBS, postponed a planned trip to Japan to be with his ailing father.
King Salman had a lung infection and that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman postponed a planned visit to Japan to remain with him.
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