Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received the Iraqi president during a visit to the kingdom on Sunday. (AFP) November 19, 2018 The Iraqi presidency denied on Monday reports claiming that Iraq is playing the role of 'mediator' between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The presidency published on its website a “denial and [...]
King Salman bin Abdulaziz chairs a cabinet session in Riyadh. (SPA) November 19, 2018 In a speech to Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council for the inauguration of its seventh edition on Monday, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz touched upon a number of issues, including developmental plans in the kingdom and combating terrorism in the region. During [...]
Gen. Qassem Soleimani (C), who heads the elite Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard attends a graduation ceremony of a group of the guard's officers in Tehran,June 30, 2018. (AP) October 23, 2018 In multilateral action, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain added on Tuesday Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and senior officers of its Quds [...]
Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) wells are pictured in an oil field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, March 16, 2016. (REUTERS) October 10, 2018 Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, will supply Indian oil buyers with an additional 4 million barrels of crude oil in November, several sources familiar with [...]
Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Abdullah al-Mouallimi called on Iran to change its approaches in the region. (Supplied) October 8, 2018 Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Abdullah al-Mouallimi said in two separate letters sent to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the president of the Security Council, that Riyadh deplores [...]
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (Riyadh Daily) October 6, 2018 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, stressed that the Kingdom is fulfilling promises to make up for Iranian crude supplies lost to American sanctions. “The request that America made to Saudi Arabia and other OPEC [...]
Saudi Arabian Riyadh city view. (Shutterstock) October 4, 2018 The Saudi prosecution charged on Monday a national with defaming the Prophet Mohammed and his companions and supporting the Lebanese Hezbollah party and its leader Hassan Nasrallah. He was also charged with glorifying the Iranian Khomeini revolution, violating Saudi Arabia’s unity and stability and [...]
MBC Persia will launch on Oct. 6, initially airing subtitled and dubbed dramas, comedies, talent-spotting shows and Hollywood and Bollywood films. (Supplied) October 3, 2018 Middle Eastern broadcasting giant MBC Group is set to launch a Farsi TV channel this weekend, targeting a huge youth population in what is a competitive media market. [...]
Mullah Ahmed sought to point out that Mehdi Hashemi (inset) was at that time a senior official in the Revolutionary Guards, and he carried out the terrorist act within this capacity. (Supplied) October 1, 2018 The family of a prominent late Shiite cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were [...]
An Iranian Shahab-3 missile launched during military exercises outside the city of Qom, Iran, in June 2011. (AP/ISNA) September 28, 2018 An Iranian media outlet close to the hardline Revolutionary Guard published a video on Tuesday threatening missile attacks on the capitals of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The video, in [...]
