Putin says Russia and Saudi Arabia to extend OPEC+ oil pact

Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed to extend into 2019 their agreement to manage the oil market, known as OPEC+, although Moscow and Riyadh have yet to agree on any fresh output cuts.

By Javad Heirannia

Murder of Khashoggi has hardened Congress resistance to nuclear agreement with KSA: Daryl Kimball

TEHRAN - Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington, says “I do not believe the Congress will approve a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia if it does not meet the “Gold Standard.”

By Javad Heirannia

‘I doubt that China or Russia would supply Saudi with enrichment or reprocessing tech’ 

TEHRAN – Professor Frank N. von Hippel, former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology says that “I don’t think that South Korea could sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia if Saudi Arabia does not have a 123 agreement with the U.S.”

Some countries trying to harm Iran by manipulating oil market: Zanganeh

Some countries are trying to harm Iran by manipulating the oil market, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Wednesday, according to Mehr news agency.

Iran, Saudi Arabia and a history of American aggression

Tehran has repeatedly delivered on its promises, while Washington has fallen short and backed Riyadh’s disastrous regional adventures

By Martin Love

Bold counter moves even if naïve are worth marginal examination at least

NORTH CAROLINA - President Rouhani and other leaders in Iran have lately been appealing for unity among all Muslims to counter the threats posed by the Israelis and the U.S. and the Saudis to sow yet more chaos in the Middle East. No one can argue against the idea of such unity, but aside from a few discrete periods in Islamic history the effective unity of the “ummah” has been and seems to remain a chimera, a least when viewed from any purely political angle.

Western claims of support for human rights are an ‘absolute lie’

TEHRAN - Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said on Monday that the U.S. backs various coalitions in the Middle East region to simply help the survival of the Zionist regime.

Saudi Arabia tortured female right-to-drive activists, says Amnesty

Women’s accounts include being given electric shocks and flogged, hung from the ceiling, and subjected to sexual harassment

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.

Leader says Iran is an example of progress

TEHRAN - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic system present examples of progress to the Islam world.

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.

Iran’s response to Saudis will be ‘covert but painful’: IRGC

TEHRAN – The chief of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened the Saudi regime’s empty and hostile remarks against Iran will not go unanswered, noting that Tehran’s reaction will be “covert but painful”.

Saudi Arabia’s $300 million aid to Reza Pahlavi for provoking protests in Iran

According to Saudi Arabia’s closest sources, recently there was a visit between Ambassador of Saudi Arabia and some senior Saudi officials with Reza Pahlavi in New York in which the son of a former Iranian king has demanded Saudis to help him in his activities against the Iranian government. Saudi Arabia has accepted the request and promised to help him if he performs some protests in the big cities of Iran.

Saudi, Israeli agents killed in Iran’s missile attack: general

TEHRAN – Agents with Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime were killed in Iran’s September 9 missile attacks against the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iran (KDP-I) terrorist group in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, commander of the IRGC aerospace division announced on Wednesday.

By Seyedeh Mahdieh Qoreishi

Saudi Arabia, a dilemma over ruling colonial or police state 

TEHRAN - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) announced the kickoff of Saudi Arabia’s massive Vision 2030 economic reform when implementation of these reforms required maximum stability and control of the country.

By Javad Heirannia

Bin Salman will step down: Hossein Askari

TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that with no doubt Mohammad bin Salman, ordered Khashoggi kidnapping, murder and disposal of the body. “I don’t believe that MBS can survive,” Hossein Askari, who served as special advisor to Saudi finance minister, tells the Tehran Times.

By Ramin Hossein Abadian

U.S. and the end of Yemen War, Washington’s attempt to save Riyadh’s ruling family 

TEHRAN - Recently, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued his strongest statement yet on the war in Yemen, calling for a cessation of hostilities in Yemen under UN-led negotiations.

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.

Turkey’s president says recording of Khashoggi’s killing was given to U.S.

WASHINGTON — Turkey said on Saturday that it had turned over an audio recording of the killing of a Saudi dissident to the United States and other Western countries, intensifying the pressure on President Trump to take stronger punitive measures against his allies in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia Quietly Revises Prince's Transformation Plan

Saudi Arabia has quietly revised its plan to overhaul its government and economy by 2020, lowering some targets as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitions bump up against the reality of implementation.

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.

‘Have you no shame’, Zarif tells Pompeo

TEHRAN - Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday asked his U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo that “have you no shame” for the Saudi starvation of the Yemeni people.

By Roohullah Ghasemian

Khashoggi’s murder: the beginning of the Greater Middle East Project

TEHRAN - It's not the first time that the Al-Saud regime brutally treats opponents, but it is the first that Western countries react to its hostility. The West generally hides and rejects anti-humanitarian measures because of their dependence on Saudi’s oil, or the sale of billions of weapons or generous suggestions made by the ruling regime.

By Negar Asadi

Khashoggi’s murder questions anti-Iran approach of Trump: scholar

TEHRAN - Modjtaba Sadria, a prominent scholar, says that murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi questions the Trump administration’s tough approach towards Iran.

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.