Abdulrahman Al-Rashed

In a recently surfaced video, Mohsen Rezaei speaks about Iran kidnapping one thousand American soldiers and bargaining over them. While the video is authentic, the statement is old, dating back to 2015. Today, Rezaei serves as the right-hand man to the new Supreme Leader and holds the position…

The sole common factor between Saudi Arabia and Iran is China. As the largest buyer of crude oil from both nations, China has also felt the economic sting of the conflict due to supply disruptions and their broader fallout. While domestic gasoline prices have surged by nearly a third and Chinese…

Although the US president has repeatedly vowed to destroy Iran, it was the recent remarks by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that triggered a sharper, more furious reaction from the Iranian leadership. Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a veteran negotiator and general, expressed…

It has become clear that the war waged by Iran is against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf sisters, and is not an Iranian war against the US or Israel. Iran has attacked Saudi Arabia with more than 1,000 drones since last February, in addition to ballistic missiles that targeted civilian…

These days, memories of August 1990 are being revived, when Saddam Hussein’s regime invaded Kuwait and plunged the Gulf into the greatest danger it had faced up to that point. Was that invasion a surprise? Perhaps in terms of its timing, but not in terms of its ideological and political roots…

The first seventy days of Ali Falih al-Zaidi's premiership renewed significant hope among Iraqis since he took office, before Tehran dispelled it. It was a period marked by the pursuit of corrupt figures, the reform of crippled government agencies, and efforts to restrict weapons to the state by…

There is much that can be said about the Saudi nuclear agreement with the United States, whether in terms of its strategic value, political implications, potential risks, cost, economic and scientific importance, or military utility. Among the criticisms leveled against President Trump is that he…

On the ground, the Iranian regime has begun executing its threats to expand the conflict by igniting two new border fronts. The first is in the southern Red Sea, threatening to close the Bab al-Mandab Strait via the Houthis. The second is in the northern Arabian Gulf, through direct and…

Someone asked: Why do the Saudis not resolve the situation in Yemen and put an end to the Houthi group? The truth is that, after many years of following developments in Yemen, I can say that the Houthi question is a “rabbit hole.” Whenever you think you have found the truth, you discover an…

The Arab Gulf states face security and existential challenges that may be greater than anything they have experienced before, including the Iraq-Iran War and the occupation of Kuwait. At that time, the world was clearer and more biased, whereas today, relying solely on alliances, agreements, or war…