<![CDATA[Summer Said - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/49498.xmlAuthor <![CDATA[Iran's Oil Dollars Drying Up, Plunging It Deeper Into Crisis]]> https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/irans-oil-dollars-are-drying-upand-plunging-it-deeper-into-crisis-21bae4bd?st=XFnrjT Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500 Summer Said <![CDATA[U.A.E.'s OPEC Bombshell Signals New Mideast Order]]> https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-a-e-opec-new-middle-east-32ceda56?st=LMPEqC Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500 Summer Said <![CDATA[U.A.E.'s OPEC Exit Is Blow to Cartel Amid Middle East Oil Squeeze]]> https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-a-e-to-leave-opec-opec-2368bbd6?st=kb5Lhm Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500 Summer Said <![CDATA[The Back-Channel Diplomacy Behind Trump's U-Turn on Iran]]> https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/the-back-channel-diplomacy-behind-trumps-u-turn-on-iran-b70efc60?st=AefxoT Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500 Summer Said <![CDATA[Iran Signals It Wants To De-Escalate With Israel and Negotiate]]> https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/a-battered-iran-signals-it-wants-to-de-escalate-hostilities-with-israel-and-negotiate-9feab4ae?st=3g83uv Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Summer Said <![CDATA[Depleted Hamas So Low on Cash It Can’t Pay Its Fighters]]> https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-finances-fighters-payments-gaza-f98df760?st=Hd9P8M Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Summer Said <![CDATA[Bashar al-Assad’s Rule Collapses in Syria]]> https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/assads-rule-collapses-in-syria-raising-concerns-of-a-vacuum-95568f13?st=5a7GTs Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600 Summer Said <![CDATA[Gaza Chief's Brutal Plan: Civilian Bloodshed Will Help Hamas]]> https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gaza-chiefs-brutal-calculation-civilian-bloodshed-will-help-hamas-626720e7?mod=hp_lead_pos1 Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500 Summer Said <![CDATA[Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks]]> https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-israel-hamas-strike-planning-bbe07b25?mod=djemalertNEWS Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500 Summer Said