He is a Senior Research Fellow with The Foreign Policy Centre A report in the Washington Post the day after the Iran war began suggested that Saudi Arabia and Israel had both lobbied Donald Trump to attack Iran.

Tehran's missile and drone attacks have crossed a red line for Saudi Arabia in its dealings with the Islamic Republic, prompting the kingdom to begin discussions on the possibility of striking Iran.

OPEC said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia sharply increased oil production in February ahead of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and kept its forecasts for relatively strong global oil demand growth this year.

Iran launches drones at Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as U.S. President Donald Trump sends mixed messages about the war, fueling market uncertainty

Saudi Arabia and Iran are both accelerating oil exports, adding barrels to global markets at a time when the US is deploying military assets in the Middle East, creating uncertainty about future supply.

Iran launched drones targeting Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, coinciding with mixed messages from U.S. President Trump about the conflict's duration, causing economic and geopolitical tensions.

Two drones fell on Wednesday near Dubai International Airport, leaving four people injured. Israel and Iran exchanged fire early Wednesday, with Tehran maintaining pressure on the region's oil industry by attacking a ship in the Strait of Hormuz and ...

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran's late supreme leader, has been named as the Islamic Republic's next ruler, authorities announced Monday, as Tehran widened its attacks across the Mideast to strike