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  • Biden unlikely to cut Iran’s oil lifeline after Israel attack

     Iran's unprecedented missile and drone strike on Israel is unlikely to prompt dramatic sanctions action on Iran's oil exports from the Biden administration due to worries about boosting oil prices and angering top buyer China, said analysts.
    Shortly after Tehran launched its weekend attack - retaliation for Israel's suspected April 1 strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus - House Republican leaders accused President Joe Biden of failing to enforce existing measures and said they would take up this week a series of bills to sharpen sanctions on Iran.

  • Israeli forces vow response to Iran’s attack despite calls for restraint

    Israelis awaited word on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would respond to Iran's first-ever direct attack as international pressure for restraint grew amid fears of an escalation of conflict in the Middle East.
    Netanyahu on Monday summoned his war cabinet for the second time in less than 24 hours to weigh a response to Iran's massive weekend missile and drone attack, a government source said.

  • Precision fire: A strategic assessment of Iran’s conventional missile program

    “Precision Fire: A Strategic Assessment of Iran’s Conventional Missile Program,” authored by Bilal Y. Saab, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Peace and Security Initiative at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, and Michael Elleman, consulting senior fellow for missile defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, analyzes the political and military challenges posed by Tehran’s potentially more accurate missiles and assesses how Washington and its regional partners could counter Tehran’s likely aims

  • Iran’s “Limited Response” Pleases Hardliners and Used Channels with the US

    Iran’s operation against Israel was not unprovoked. On April 1, Israel attacked the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus with F-35s, killing seven officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as well as six Syrians and a major Hezbollah official. Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Zahedi, former IRGC Ground Forces Commander and head of the Lebanon-Syria Unit of the external branch of the IRGC, the Quds Force, was the top official killed in the Israeli airstrike.

  • Erdogan Politically Wounded But Still Turkey’s Dominant Power

    Results of the March 31 nationwide local elections in Turkey represent the first true defeat for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) since its 2001 founding. Although the previous local elections, in 2019, were widely interpreted as a defeat for Erdogan, as the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) opposition won five of Turkey’s six largest cities – including the two major prizes, Istanbul and national capital Ankara – AKP actually won the elections by most measures: provincial capital mayoralties, provincial assemblies, and village councils as well as overall mayoral vote totals. AKP even won majorities in the Istanbul and Ankara municipal councils in 2019, complicating life for the CHP mayors of those cities.

  • Saudi defense minister receives phone call from US counterpart

    Saudi Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman received on Sunday a phone call from U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. During the call, they reviewed the strategic partnership between the two countries in the military and defense fields and ways to strengthen them. The ministers also discussed the recent military escalation in the region, the danger of its repercussions, and the efforts being exerted to contain these developments in a way safeguarding international peace and security, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

  • Why Another Drawdown Of America’s Oil Reserve Could Happen

    The motivation there for the OPEC+ ministers would be to avoid the inevitable demand destruction that $100/barrel oil prices have caused in the past. It is a motivation that makes sense for countries whose long-term economic health remains highly dependent on strong demand for crude oil. The question, though, becomes how quickly OPEC+ is willing to act to readjust its production targets, given that the group acted just last week to reaffirm commitments to lower quotas it has had in place since last summer. With the Brent price already over $91/bbl and the US summer driving season rapidly approaching, the prospect of a near-term rise to the $100 mark is not really all that remote.

  • Saudi Arabia arrests over 20,000 violators of residency, labour and border security laws in a week

    The Saudi Ministry of Interior said that 20,667 individuals were arrested for residency, labour, and border security violations in a nationwide sweep from April 4 to 10.
    Of them, 14,805 have been arrested for residency violations, 3,860 for border breaches and 2,002 for labour violations.

  • Saudi Arabia’s EV imports rise to 779 in 2023: Report

    Saudi imports of electric vehicles (EVs) increased by 271% to reach 779 cars in 2023, amounting to SAR 397.3 million, Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper reported, citing the General Authority for Statistics.

    Meanwhile, the Kingdom imported 210 EVs in 2022, valued at SAR 52.3 million, the newspaper added.

  • Saudi personal data protection law update 2024

    In essence, the changes aim to streamline the existing regulations, offering a clearer, more cohesive framework. Notably, the new draft simplifies the criteria for assessing which countries and international organisations provide adequate data protection. It also removes overly general criteria and now includes considerations for compliance with binding international treaties.