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“Saudi Arabia is leading a new Arab Islamic bloc with Pakistan, Turkey, and Qatar. It has put the brakes on the Abraham Accords and will be clearing Israeli presence from region. No one is joining Abraham Accords anymore.”
— Saudi Analyst on Russia Today TV.
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@TheCradleMedia This report is pure fiction. Trying to create a fake division between King Salman and the Crown Prince is an old, tired media tactic that completely fails against Saudi Arabia's unified leadership
Saudi Crown Prince identifies King Salman as sole obstacle to immediate Saudi normalization with Israel
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman privately told evangelical leader and Trump ally Mike Evans that he is ready to recognize Israel immediately, but considers his father, King Salman, to be the primary obstacle. In a report published by The Jerusalem Post, Evans stated that during a two-hour meeting with the crown prince, which was also attended by the Saudi foreign minister and the crown prince's brother, the latter expressed a similar willingness to formalize ties with Israel.
Evans claimed the crown prince was sharply critical of Palestinians, alleging they wasted financial aid and should copy Israel rather than attack it, while also rejecting the concept of dividing Jerusalem into two capitals. The remarks surface as US President Donald Trump actively pushes to tie a potential deal with Iran to a major expansion of the Abraham Accords.
According to The Jerusalem Post, Trump is leveraging his diplomatic influence to press several Arab and Muslim-majority nations, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey, into normalizing relations with Israel following a possible agreement to end the war with Iran. While Riyadh has historically maintained a public stance linking Israeli recognition to progress on Palestinian statehood, Evans argued that the current regional landscape has shifted and that Trump possesses the negotiation leverage to secure Saudi compliance.
Beyond regional normalization, Evans also detailed efforts by his organization, Friends of Zion, to counter rising non-interventionist and anti-Israel narratives within the US conservative movement. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Evans noted that his group mobilized 1,000 pastors for a social media campaign targeting media figure Tucker Carlson, whom Evans claimed has since been sidelined by Trump.
@AmitSegal Fabricating fake dialogues and economic deficits won't change reality. Saudi Arabia’s economy and infrastructure are rock-solid and fully capable of securing national assets
The bill for American action has arrived at the Saudi door. Last night, Donald Trump reportedly demanded that in exchange for finalizing the current ceasefire deal with Iran—the one desperately needed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—the Gulf states would have to pay a massive premium: immediate normalization with Israel. According to my sources, the ultimatum was met with literal silence. The Arab leaders were so thoroughly stunned by the audacity of the request that Trump actually had to break the silence with a follow-up: “Are you still there?”
For months, we have watched a narrative form: Israel deceived the United States into a disastrous war that only empowered Iran. This narrative ignores multiple factors, including but not limited to the fact that it was Trump’s choice, Trump did not follow the Israeli plan, and—perhaps most of all—the presence of another major player calling for war: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In late February, The Washington Post reported that the decision to go to war had been reached after encouragement from two key allies: Israel and Saudi Arabia. Throughout the war, they reinforced this support. A few weeks later, when Trump was claiming that the war would be over in a few days, The New York Times reported that both nations heavily encouraged a continuation of the conflict. Prince Mohammed reportedly argued that the United States should consider putting troops in Iran to seize energy infrastructure and force the government out of power.
But things have changed.
The Saudis never expected to put their core energy infrastructure on the line for this conflict, assuming a covert nod to Washington would yield a painless destruction of the Iranian threat. Instead, the smoking ruins of the Ras Tanura refinery, a staggering $33.5 billion first-quarter deficit, and a hull-to-hull backup in the Strait of Hormuz served as a brutal awakening. With the United Arab Emirates stepping aggressively into the vacuum—gladly absorbing the role of America’s primary, hardline Gulf ally—Riyadh is executing a frantic tactical retreat. For the past month and a half, MBS has been beating a different drum: diplomacy. “Okay,” said Trump last night, but constantly shifting positions comes with a cost: normalization.
This is about far more than Trump extracting a quick return on investment. By demanding normalization as the price for a ceasefire, he is forcing the Saudis to grab Israel’s other arm to physically restrain Jerusalem from striking Iran alone.
It underscores a truth that Trump understood and Obama never did: the most effective way to control Israel isn’t to push them away, but to wrap them in a bear hug. By locking Jerusalem into a close alliance, Washington doesn’t just protect them—it places its hand directly over the Israeli trigger finger. Washington needs its hand over that trigger because Israel has little incentive to hold back when the current deal appears to leave Iran in a stronger position than before.
That is the Iranian impression as well. In The Art of the Deal, Trump writes: “The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead.” Sensing American eagerness for a diplomatic off-ramp, Tehran has smelled exactly that, aggressively upping its demands before any Memorandum of Understanding can be printed.
Despite draft stipulations requiring a return to free transit, the IRGC is leveraging its tactical position to normalize a permanent, permission-based transit regime in the Strait of Hormuz—boasting that 33 commercial vessels were forced to register and coordinate with the IRGC Navy in a single 24-hour window. Meanwhile, Iran has flatly rejected a Pakistani compromise to defer unresolved issues, flipping the entire sequencing of the talks by refusing any nuclear-related commitments or stockpiling concessions at this stage. Instead, an emboldened Tehran is demanding immediate economic rewards, including the unfreezing of blocked assets, while conditioning the entire agreement on an “all fronts” ceasefire that would effectively force Washington to strip Israel of its freedom of action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
At the end of the devastating Iran-Iraq War, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini famously declared that accepting peace was like “drinking a poison chalice.” Today, his successor’s successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, is facing no such bitter brew. Instead, Benjamin Netanyahu is being asked to swallow the fatal mixture this time around. Much to his relief, Donald Trump is trying to mix in a Saudi sweetener to help the medicine go down.
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Saudi Arabia launched a crackdown against citizens complaining on social media about the hiring of foreigners for senior positions at a state-owned company. ft.trib.al/mMOAkIr
@unusual_whales Amin Nasser is providing a technical assessment of the crisis. These figures highlight why Saudi oil is the bedrock of global energy stability
Saudi Aramco CEO Nasser: If the current disruptions continue at this rate, market will lose around 100 million barrels of oil every week the Strait remains closed.