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.

Channel supported MKO, al-Ahwaziya terrorists

UK-based anti-Iran TV channel linked to MBS: Guardian

A UK-based anti-Iran TV station is being funded through a secretive offshore entity and a company whose director is a Saudi Arabian businessman with close links to the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Guardian said on Wednesday.

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 Ramin Hossein Abadian

What does Saudi Arabia want from Lebanon?

TEHRAN - Al Akhbar, a daily Arabic language newspaper, announced the imminent visit of Sa'd al-Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister to Riyadh. The trip was set for earlier time, but was postponed for unspecified reasons. Riyadh's Saudi charge d’affair Wahid al-Bukhari was in Lebanon the other day, but it remains unclear whether his trip has anything to do with Hariri's.

By Javad Heirannia

Saudi Arabia’s desperate alliance moves

TEHRAN – The establishment of security pacts and alliances among countries demands high levels of cooperation from its member to deal effectively with different threats. Saudi Arabia and Egypt, for instance, have called for an “Arab NATO” to “wipe terrorism from the face of the earth.” This proposed alliance already faces various internal and external challenges, for instance over the future of the Assad government in Syria and how to deal with conflicts in Libya and Yemen.

Israeli envoy, MBS, Rajavi meet in France: sources

TEHRAN – Israel’s ambassador to Paris, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and Maryam Rajavi, leader of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), have met in France, Pars Today quoted unnamed sources as saying on Wednesday.

Bin Salman’s ambition becoming ‘incurable disease’: Iran

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Friday that the ambition of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has no limitations and is becoming a “chronic, incurable disease”.

Iran says Saudi prince knows nothing about war

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Friday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has not studied history and knows nothing about war.

Iran calls Saudi crown prince ‘delusional’, ‘naive’

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Thursday that the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is a “delusional” and “naive” person who just tells lies.

Saudi military shakeup aimed to empower MBS: ex-minister

TEHRAN – Former Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia’s military shakeup is aimed at paving the way for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to sit on the throne.

Attempt to hijack nation’s voice

Sources close to security bodies have said of over 500 people arrested during the disturbances in different cities in Iran, more than 80 percent have admitted receiving money and ordered from outside the country to misuse the people’s protest against price rises and high unemployment.

Tehran: Even Riyadh’s old allies stiffened by bin Salman’s greenness

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi has responded to the recent anti-Iran statements by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying the remarks shows bin Salman’s “immature, unsophisticated behavior.”

U.S. Congressman: A Saudi war against Iran would be ‘utter folly’

Ro Khanna, a senior legislator at the U.S. Congress, has warned Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that launching a direct war against Iran would be an “utter folly”.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

Mossad failed theory against Hezbollah

The House of Saud regime, its King and absolute monarch Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and its inexperienced Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman who is also known as MBS, are making headlines more often than they used to.

Saudi crown prince calls for Iraqi mediation with Tehran: minister

TEHRAN –Iraqi Interior Minister Qasim al-Araji said on Sunday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has officially asked him to mediate between Tehran and Riyadh.

By Javad Heirannia

King Salman may abdicate throne in favor of son: ex-CIA analyst

TEHRAN – Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, says it is possible that King Salman abdicate the throne in favor of his 31-year old son Mohammed bin Salman (MbS).

By Bruce Riedel

Al-Qaeda strikes back

Al-Qaeda declared war on the Saudi royal family 15 years ago with a call to revolution by Osama bin Laden that precipitated the most serious and dangerous violence in the modern kingdom since its founding.

Dialogue with Riyadh still best way to end impasse: diplomat 

TEHRAN – A top Iranian diplomat has said Tehran is insistent on its opinion that dialogue with Saudi Arabia is still the “best way” to end a deadlock in bilateral relations. 

By Javad Heirannia

Scholar predicts Bin Salman will intensify war on Yemen 

TEHRAN - A professor of political science at Georgetown University is of the opinion that Mohammed bin Salman, who was suddenly promoted to the second ranking person in the Saudi Kingdom, will intensify war against Yemen and assert a tougher policy toward Iran. 

By Doug Bandow

With new crown prince, Saudi Arabia doubles down on political repression and regional aggression

Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz has shaken his nation’s closed political system by making his youngest son his heir.

Whistle-Blower: New Saudi Crown Prince Preparing for Open Ties with Israel

TEHRAN - Saudi whistle-blower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, revealed that new crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is attempting to pave the ground for overt relations with Israel.

There’s reason to doubt Saudi Arabia’s charming new crown prince

Mohammed bin Salman, the 31-year-old who last week was named crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has been working assiduously to win friends and influence people in Washington.

By Javad Heirannia

Mohammed bin Salman’s promotion is end of harmony within al-Saud tribe: expert

TEHRAN - Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who teaches international business at George Washington University, says the promotion of Prince Mohammed bin Salman by his father King Salman to the rank of crown prince marks the end of “harmony within the al-Saud tribe”.

By David Hearst

Saudi Arabia’s prince of chaos

The final act of the palace coup I have been writing about since King Salman took over has just been completed.

By Uri Savir

Abbas eyes Merkel as Plan B if Trump fails on Mideast peace

A senior Palestinian minister close to President Mahmoud Abbas told Al-Monitor that the Palestinian leadership is ready to seriously engage with the Trump administration on moving ahead with plans for a regional deal for Palestinian-Israeli peace.

By Robert Fisk

Did Trump denounce Qatar as a ‘sponsor of terrorism’ due to failed business deals?

What on earth made President Donald Trump identify Qatar – with its longstanding relationship with the U.S. and host to 10,000 American military personnel on the biggest airbase in the Middle East – as a “funder of terrorism”?

Zarif condemns Tehran terror attacks, implicitly points finger at Riyadh

TEHRAN – Condemning twin terrorist attacks in Tehran on Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif implicitly pointed the finger of suspicion at Saudi Arabia.