Kranjcar satisfied with draw against Saudi Arabia

TEHRAN – Iran U23 football coach Zlatko Kranjcar is satisfied with the goalless draw against Saudi Arabia in the 2018 Asian Games opener.

Asian Games: Iran football held by Saudi Arabia

TEHRAN - Iran football team started the 2018 Asian Games with a goalless draw against Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

By Javad Heirannia

Arab NATO is exchanging security by economic and financial issues: Hunter

TEHRAN - Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, tells the Tehran Times that that “At least since the mid1970s, there has been a tacit cooperation among Persian Gulf Arab states and the West, including America.”

By Javad Heirannia

Members of Arab NATO have conflicting interests: Adib-Moghaddam

TEHRAN - Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute believes that the countries that are said to become a part of this new "Arab NATO" have conflicting interests.

By M.A. Saki

Has Saudi Arabia gone mad?

The Saudi-led coalition is committing crimes in Yemen one after another. In a new airstrike on Thursday, a bus was targeted as it was carrying children from a summer camp in a busy market area in the northern Majz district.

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

Decoding of the UN's silence about Yemen

The release of bitter and shocking news related to the mercenary martyrdom of 57 Yemeni students and the wounding of 77 people in Saudi Arabia's missile strike on a bus carrying innocent students has provoked anger at the international community from politicians and soldiers in Saudi Arabia and supporters of Riyadh. What exactly is happening in Yemen?

Iran rejects OIC accusations, denounces ‘Saudi-Emirati war crime’ in Yemen

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Thursday rejected accusations by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as “worthless”; it also said airstrike on a school bus in Yemen on Thursday constituted an example of the Saudi-UEA “war crime”.

Price volatility is result of psychological warfare on Iran, FM Zarif notes

Zarif: Trump, MBS, Netanyahu ‘are symbols of mistrust, violence, suppression’

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that those who violate international agreements, easily infringe on the rights of the Palestinian people, and take the prime minister of another country hostage are the symbols of “mistrust, violence and suppression” in the world.

By Fatemeh Salehi

Iran today is a trans-regional power: Yemeni Expert

TEHRAN - Recently, American and Arab sources have been reporting about U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to forge a new political and security coalition with some Persian Gulf states (Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain), Egypt and Jordan to counter Iran. The White House wants to strengthen collaboration with these countries in the field of missile defense, military training, counter-terrorism and other issues, such as supporting regional economic and diplomatic relations.

Saudi Arabia issues visa for head of Iran interests section

TEHRAN – An informed source announced on Sunday that Saudi Arabia has agreed to grant visa to head of the interests section of Iran at the Saudi kingdom

Iran to open interest section in Riyadh

TEHRAN – After years of diplomatic blackout between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Tehran plans to soon open an interest section in Riyadh. 

By Payman Yazdani

Forming alliance among PGCC member states is an illusory idea: Entessar

TEHRAN - Professor of political science says the "Arab world" today is a patchwork of competing countries and forming an enduring alliance among the Arab states of the Persian Gulf is an illusory idea concocted by the U.S.

MP: Riyadh creating conflicts to escape democracy

TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia has been trying to escape democracy by creating conflicts, namely supporting the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group and attacking Yemen, Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said on Sunday.

By Payman Yazdani

Saudi is playing with sectarian card in Iraq: Logoglu

TEHRAN - Turkish politician says Saudi Arabia’s move toward Erbil aims to reduce Iran and Turkey influence in Iraq to break up the country in coordination with the U.S. and Israel.

Tehran calls Saudi envoy’s claims ‘farcical’

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday saying claims made by the Saudi Ambassador to Washington are “hollow” and “farcical” which do not worth response.

‘Israel after division of Muslim states including S. Arabia’

TEHRAN – Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the parliament speaker, said on Sunday that Tel Aviv aspires to disintegrate Islamic countries, and Saudi Arabia is not an exception.

‘60% of anti-Iran elements in cyberspace are in Saudi’

TEHRAN - Gholam Reza Jalali, chief of the Civil Defense Organization, said on Saturday that about 60 percent of Persian-speaking anti-revolution elements in cyberspace are based in Saudi Arabia.

Iran oil removal to take Saudi regime, oil market into unknown

TEHRAN– Reuters market analyst John Kemp has warned against the consequences of Iran’s oil removal from the global markets.

By Fatemeh Salehi

Saudi Arabia, the UAE footprint in Eritrea, Ethiopia rapprochement

TEHRAN - The reconciliation between Ethiopia and Eretria after 20 years is top news in the African continent.

India will lose 'special privileges' if it buys crude from Saudi Arabia, U.S.: Iranian diplomat

Iran will end “special privileges” for India if New Delhi tried to replace Iranian crude with supplies from Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States, said a senior Iranian diplomat in New Delhi on July 10.

Regional states able to settle disputes through consultation: Larijani

TEHRAN - Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday that there is no need for interference of foreigners in the affairs of countries in the Middle East.

Iran will resist U.S. intimidation: Princeton researcher

TEHRAN - Hossein Mousavian, a Princeton University researcher, has said that Iran will resist the U.S. policy of intimidation and intervention.

By Farzad Farhadi

"Deal of the Century"; the dream that will not be interpreted

TEHRAN - The plan that allegedly brings an end to the 70-year-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been dubbed the “deal of the century”. It is no such thing.

By Ramin Hossein Abadian

Saudis fail to make headway in Iraq

TEHRAN - While nearly two months have passed since the 2018 parliamentary election in Iraq, Riyadh continues to cross the line and meddle in Baghdad’s internal affairs.

By Farzad Farhadi

Saudis cave to Trump demands to pump more oil

TEHRAN - The hostile moves of the United States against Iran are going on in all dimensions, in particular the economic one.

‘I hope Saudis won’t accuse Yemenis of importing tunnels from Iran’

TEHRAN – Chief of Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee has pointed to the recently broadcasted images of the Yemeni underground launch pads used for retaliatory missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, saying “I hope they [Saudis] don’t accuse Yemenis of importing tunnels from Iran.”

Saudi air raid on wedding party in Yemen is a ‘war crime’: Iran

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday that the Saudi-led airstrike on a wedding ceremony in Yemen which left 11 people killed is an instance of “war crime”.

By Fatemeh Salehi

Yemeni missile power surprising aggressors

The Rocketry Force of the Yemeni Army and Popular Committees on Friday said that it produced new, domestically-manufactured ballistic missiles that were made by Yemeni experts. It claimed that a new experiment, on a short-range ballistic missile, was done successfully.