https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/3/trump-says-new-iran-negotiations-starting-what-we-know
The GCC - Arab Gulf State coalition - seem interested in watching and waiting on bilateral Oman - Iran talks.
How the U.S - Saudi nuclear enrichment "deal" will fare, and fit into something more wide reaching seems an open question. Israel is as always, an impediment. Or seems so. They will be having elections in the fairly near future, and Bibi may be ousted. Or not?
Organized and scripted "settler violence" in line with "Greater Israel" long term aims of that nation seem to be either escalated or more widely reported in mainstream U.S. reporting. It could be both.
UPDATE: While admitting he'd been serving the pecuniary interests of his oil donor cronies he bitched about their continued present hosing of consumers in the U.S. with midterms approaching. Or explain that item differently. It seems to say what it says.