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2018-12-30 22:34
Jubeir’s dismissal could help restore Tehran-Riyadh ties: analyst
TEHRAN – A senior political analyst believes the dismissal of Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir could be a step toward restoration of ties between Tehran and Riyadh.
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2018-12-30 16:33
On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur
KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
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2018-12-30 15:45
Christmas 2018: Iran and Syria show respect, Israel and Saudi Arabia don't
Christmas is a time of goodwill to all men. Or at least it should be. But while the West’s Middle East ‘bad guys’ Iran and Syria, showed the Yuletide spirit, its closest allies, Saudi Arabia and Israel, failed to do so.
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2018-12-26 13:32
Trump: Saudi Arabia, not U.S., will pay to rebuild Syria
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that Saudi Arabia, not the United States, will provide funds to help rebuild Syria, destroyed, in fact, mostly by American and Saudi sponsored terrorists.
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2018-12-25 11:33
Saudi compensates Iranian victims for crane crash incident
TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia has paid compensation to families of the Iranian nationals killed in the collapse of a crane in the holy city of Mecca in 2015, director of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization announced on Monday.
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2018-12-23 10:39
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
Farce of ‘reforms’ in Saudi: extra-judicial executions double under MBS
TEHRAN - The grandiloquent talk of ‘reforms’ in Saudi Arabia had dominated the popular discourse in the West after crown prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) engineered an unprecedented purge of his own family late last year and seized control of the palace.
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2018-12-22 20:00
Zarif says S. Arabia is source of problems in the region
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that Saudi Arabia is a source of problems in the Middle East region, ISNA reported on Saturday.
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2018-12-19 20:03
U.S. offers to include Taliban representatives in caretaker Afghan government
TEHRAN - U.S. government and Taliban officials engaged in two-day hectic negotiations in UAE, during which the two sides reportedly discussed six-month ceasefire in Afghanistan and the withdrawal of foreign troops.
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2018/12/19
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
Saudi-led coalition makes mockery of Yemen truce
TEHRAN - After week-long marathon peace talks in Sweden, facilitated by the United Nations, Yemen’s warring parties agreed to an immediate ceasefire in Hodeidah city and the ports of Hodeidah, Ras Issa and Saleef, in a bid to resolve the country’s humanitarian crisis and scale down fighting.
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2018-12-19 20:01
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
'Afghanistan deadliest country in world for journalists in 2018'
TEHRAN - Journalists in Afghanistan, where the foreign-imposed war has now stretched into its 18th year, continue to walk a tightrope, living dangerously while trying to report the daily incidents.
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2018-12-19 19:57
Pakistan second worst in gender parity
Pakistan has earned a dubious distinction for itself, becoming the second worst country in the world in terms of gender parity.
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2018-12-18 21:37
By staff and agency
Iran says Saudi coalition against Yemen had ‘unwarranted illusion’
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi has said that the Saudi-led coalition against Yemen had a kind of ‘unwarranted illusion’.
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2018-12-18 10:37
By Javad Heirannia
‘Reforming Muslim countries and Islamicity indices’
TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that Islamicity Indices are based on Qur’anic teachings.
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2018-12-18 09:59
By Mohammad Homaeefar
Red Sea legal regime: Spider’s dream against Iran won’t be realized
TEHRAN - On Wednesday, December 12, Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh hosted the first Arab-African conference of foreign ministers of six countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, a strategic area vital to global shipping.
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2018/12/17
By Mudasir Sheikh
U.S. military industrial complex’s perpetual warfare
TEHRAN - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on 10 December 2018 released its report on the sale of weapons and other military hardware by the world’s largest 100 weapon manufacturers. The U.S. weapon manufacturers dominated the ‘top hundred list’ with a 57 percent share of arms sales. According to the report, the U.S. companies benefitted from the U.S. Department of Defense’s ongoing demand for weapons.
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2018-12-16 20:20
By staff and agency
Zarif: Blame Saudi Arabia and U.S. for regional instability
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has rejected the label of the world’s top sponsor of terrorism ascribed to Iran by Saudi Arabia and the U.S.
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2018/12/16
By Samuel Oakford
Washington sends the Saudis a long-overdue bill
The Pentagon’s $331 million invoice to the Kingdom and the UAE was another blow after a difficult week
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2018-12-16 12:09
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.
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2018-12-14 23:50
‘National interests are not something factional’
Iran gets its security from people: Zarif
TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday that it is people who back national security in Iran.
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2018-12-13 10:04
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
Person of the Year: Murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi
TEHRAN - As 2018 approaches its end, it is time to look back at the important events and happenings that shaped the year. The year would go down in history for many reasons – tragic incidents, hyperbolic remarks, political dramas, trade wars, downfall of dictators, rise of democrats.
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2018-12-12 20:34
Leader: Saudis getting more bogged down in Yemen
TEHRAN – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has been caught in the Yemeni quagmire and the more they try to get involved in the war against Yemenis the more they will be bogged down.
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2018-12-11 21:38
U.S., Saudi plans for replacing Iranian gas in Iraq doomed to failure
TEHRAN – Considering Iraq’s geopolitical improvements in the past few years, the Iraqi government has been seeking to improve the country’s infrastructure and one of the main areas of focus has been Iraq’s electricity network and power infrastructures.
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2018-12-10 20:28
Tehran says Saudi Arabia, UAE have monopolized PGCC
TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday indirectly slammed Saudi Arabia and the UAE for turning the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council into a body to express their own views.
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2018-12-10 17:18
PGCC is neither ‘council’ nor ‘cooperation’: advisor
TEHRAN – Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the parliament speaker, has said that neither “council” nor “cooperation” has remained from the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council.
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2018-12-10 17:15
Graham: Saudis would 'be 'speaking Farsi in about a week' without U.S. support against Iran
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox News on Sunday that Saudi Arabia's military "can't fight out of a paper bag" when confronted with Mideast challenges including Iran, and insisted that the U.S. has the necessary leverage to punish the Saudi leadership for its apparent role in the murder of dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi.
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2018-12-07 21:50
OPEC agrees on larger-than-expected oil cut after marathon talks
OPEC finally broke an impasse over production curbs, agreeing on a larger-than-expected cut with allies after two days of fractious negotiations in Vienna.
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2018-12-07 18:11
Producers reach accord to remove 1.2 million barrels a day
OPEC agrees on larger-than-expected oil cut
OPEC finally broke an impasse over production curbs, agreeing on a larger-than-expected cut with allies after two days of fractious negotiations in Vienna.
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2018-12-07 14:29
OPEC yet to agree on final deal
VIENNA- Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said he wasn’t confident OPEC would reach a deal on Friday to cut oil output as sources said the producer group’s leader had yet to agree on exemptions for sanctions-hit Iran.
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2018-12-05 10:07
By Fatemeh Salehi
Escalation of Saudi attacks against Yemen on the eve of peace talks
TEHRAN - Yemen peace talk is to start in Sweden this week between the warring sides with the presence of the Ansarollah delegation. There is a great deal of speculation over the success of the talks as a result of the Saudi-backed coalition’s hindrances and the U.S. political and military interests in the continuation of the Yemeni war.
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2018-12-03 20:13
Iran: Brian Hook enters ‘childish show’
Tehran won’t reject neighbors’ positive gesture: Qassemi
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Monday that Iran seeks a stable Middle East region and will not give negative response to any positive gesture by any neighboring country.
