By Daniel Larison

Mohammed bin Salman, regional menace

Hisham Melhem has written a searing denunciation of Mohammed bin Salman (MBS)’s disastrous foreign policy record and his destabilizing domestic power grabs.

By Nicholas Kristof

So, I Asked People in Saudi Arabia About Their Mad, Murderous Crown Prince

The U.S. has leverage over Riyadh. Let’s use it.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — It’s awkward to find yourself in a police state interviewing people about their leader’s penchant for starving children, torturing women or dismembering critics.

By hamid Bayati  

Trump impeachment and stigmatizing MBS; the fate in the Congress’s hand

TEHRAN - Perhaps Mohammed bin Salman failed to imagine that his credibility and royal reputation, or what’s left of it, would depend on U.S. Senate, which has become a nightmare for him.

Corker to introduce resolution holding Saudi crown prince 'responsible' for Khashoggi's death

Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said on Monday evening that he is planning to introduce a resolution that would name Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman as "responsible" for the death of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. 

By Javad Heirannia

PGCC with excesses of MBS doomed to trash heap of history: Askari

TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that the PGCC has always been a Saudi ‘thing’ with a number of countries simply hanging on.

By: Ebrahim Fallahi

Oil’s love triangle ends up with Trump in tears

These days whenever there is talks about oil market three names are inevitably come to surface, the U.S. President Trumps, Russian President Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

U.S. senator calls bin Salman ‘crazy’ and ‘dangerous’

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday that he had "high confidence" that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, was complicit in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.

By Martin Love

The loss of the American “empire” is baked in the cake

NORTH CAROLINA - So much going on round the world of note, and too few remarking at attempts to torture or waterboard free speech in the U.S., except this time if the subject literally drowns or dies, which journalist Jamal Khashoggi did in his own blood, no problem – that may be the intent anyway, to eliminate all dissenting voices that are, to one degree or another and maybe too loud about it, appalled by various rampant, overextended “isms”: Zionism, Neo-liberalism, run amok Capitalism, Communism, Nationalism, Nazism, Wahhabism, Americanism, and others. 

By Hanif Ghafari

The G20 fruitless summit

TEHRAN - The 2018 G20 summit in Buenos Aires, was the thirteenth meeting of Group of Twenty (G20), which was held on 30 November and 1 December 2018 in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Senators accuse Saudi crown prince of complicity in Khashoggi murder

Senators emerged from a closed-door briefing with the CIA director on Tuesday and accused the Saudi crown prince of complicity in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Jamal Khashoggi's private WhatsApp messages may offer new clues to killing

In his public writings, Jamal Khashoggi's criticism of Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was measured. In private, the Washington Post columnist didn't hold back.

Saudi crown prince gets frosty G20 welcome

The G20 summit kicked off on Friday in Buenos Aires with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman facing an awkward reception from world leaders.

By Saied Sobhani

Demonic Bin Salman in Buenos Aires

The crown prince’s nightmare is Khashoggi

TEHRAN – Buenos Aires hosted the 2018 G20 summit on Friday while the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi national journalist who was horrifically murdered in the Saudi embassy in Turkey, was expected to have an impact on the assembly. 

Trump is defending Mohammed bin Salman’s lies. Congress must insist on the truth.

SAUDI ARABIA’S crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is brazenly seeking to lie his way out of accountability for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and the Trump administration is helping him do so.

By Javad Heirannia & Ramin Hossein Abadian

U.S. and Saudi nuclear options

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Mbs) has recently pushed a plan to build seven strategic nuclear projects in the country, including a nuclear reactor in King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology in Riyadh. The make of the first Saudi research reactor is unclear since Riyadh and Washington have not reached an agreement yet on this nuclear project.

Trump is defending Mohammed bin Salman’s lies. Congress must insist on the truth.

SAUDI ARABIA’S crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is brazenly seeking to lie his way out of accountability for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and the Trump administration is helping him do so.

Trump denies Mohammed bin Salman ordered murder of Khashoggi

On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump disputed findings by American intelligence agencies that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Turkey on October 2.

CIA concludes bin Salman ordered killing of Khashoggi 

The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to American officials.

NY Times: Saudis close to MBS tried to kill Iranian officials 

In a report published on November 11, the New York Times revealed that senior Saudi intelligence officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, tried to assassinate Iranian officials including the IRGC Quds Force commander last year.

By Ramin Hossein Abdian

Saudi and insistence on terrorism policy; worry about repeating Khashoggi case

TEHRAN - Over a month after Jamal Khoshaggi’s murder, there remains much confusion and many questions about the crime the Saudis committed in their consulate in Istanbul.

Turkey´s Erdogan says Khashoggi killing ordered by highest level of Saudi govt

ANKARA:  The order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi came from the "highest levels" of the Saudi government, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in an op-ed piece published by the Washington Post on Friday.

By Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com

West and Saudi's Petro Dollars

TEHRAN - Although Western countries have condemned the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Mohammad bin Salman, they are simultaneously trying to cover the unimaginable crime of the Saudis. 

By Ryan Costello & Sina Toossi

Mohammed bin Salman is the next Saddam Hussein

In the 1980s, the United States embraced a brutal Middle Eastern tyrant simply because he opposed Iran. Washington should not repeat the same mistake today.

By Payman Yazdani

Riyadh likely to double anti-Iran policies after Khashoggi death: Prof. Zonis

TEHRAN - Marvin Zonis says President Trump is unlikely to maintain a strong response to the Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia will likely double its anti_Iran policies to divert attention.

By Payman Yazdani

Khashoggi case won't affect Saudi destructive regional policy: Logoglu

TEHRAN - A senior member of Turkey’s CHP says at the end of the day Trump will express his satisfaction with Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi case and there will be no changes to Saudi destabilizing regional policy led by Prince Bin Salman.

Khashoggi’s 'severed fingers taken to Saudi crown prince as macabre trophy'

Murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi's severed fingers were taken back to Saudi Arabia and presented to the kingdom's ruling crown prince, it is claimed.

Erdogan says ‘savage’ murder of Khashoggi was premeditated

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan  says there are strong signs the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned and that he was killed in a "savage way". 

By Payman Yazdani

Erdogan’s multiple goals in Khashoggi case

TEHRAN - Disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul created a wave of reactions against Saudi young Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s suppressive policies. Despite early denials, worldwide reactions finally forced the Saudi rulers to acknowledge the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman policies in the country’s consulate.

By Javad Heirannia

 For Why Trump is Attacking Iran as he Defends MBS: Askari

TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that Trump has to invent something for defending MBS and King Salman to his evangelical base and the millions of other Americans who get their news from Fox.

By Javad Heirannia

U.S. has buried its moral compass in the Trump-Kushner-MBS disaster: Askari

TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that Jamal Khashoggi was tortured and murdered.