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Yesterday 09:19
By Mohammad Ghaderi & Javad Heirannia
Russia interfered in U.S. elections to get Trump elected: Askari
TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that “Trump has had business dealings with the Russians for many years. They have helped him.
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2019-01-14 10:49
By Ramin Hossein Abadian
Saudi-led coalition escalates attacks on Yemen, repeatedly violates al-Hudaydah truce
TEHRAN - White over a month has passed since the cease-fire agreement in Stockholm over Yemen, the aggressive Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia against the Yemeni continues to violate the cease-fire, especially in al-Hudaydah. This is despite the fact that the Yemeni resistance groups have not violated the ceasefire.
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2019-01-09 11:15
Book review by Mohammad Hashemi
Armageddon in the Orient: How the Saudi-Connection targets Iran
TEHRAN - On the afternoon of February 14, 1945, King Abdul Aziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia, set foot on board the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal for a secret official meeting with the United States president.
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2019-01-07 23:22
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
After incarceration, Saudi deports ‘handcuffed’ Rohingya to Bangladesh
TEHRAN - Driven from their homeland in Rakhine state of Myanmar by the ultranationalist Buddhist monks actively backed by the country’s military forces, Rohingya Muslims have been rendered homeless.
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2019-01-06 11:45
By Fatemeh Salehi
UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN - Britain is the second-largest exporter of arms to Saudi Arabia after the U.S., regardless of human rights violations of Saudi Arabia. After the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, UK military sales to Riyadh has not only declined, but surprisingly increased.
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2019-01-05 16:45
2018: Saudis made a play for regional hegemony and tripped over a single murder
The arrogant and impatient young Mohammed Bin Salman, who shouldered aside a raft of uncles and cousins to grab power as crown prince, is something new in Saudi history.
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2019/01/02
By Syed Zafar Mehdi
Remembering Baqir al-Nimr, symbol of resistance
TEHRAN - “Either we live on this land as free men, or die and be buried in it as pious men. We have no other choice,” Sheikh Baqir al-Nimr famously said in 2011. He walked the talk, refused to pledge allegiance to the despotic rulers of his land, refused to accept humiliation, and chose to die with dignity and honor.
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2019-01-01 20:57
MBS after escaping criticism by removing al-Jubeir: senior Iranian lawmaker
TEHRAN – Chairman of the Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, known as MBS, has tried to escape criticism by changing the kingdom’s foreign minister.
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2018-12-31 10:48
By Ramin Hossein Abadian
Violating ceasefire in al-Hudaydah with Saudi's killing machine
TEHRAN - Yemen peace talks are underway in Sweden capital Stockholm between the Yemeni resistance groups and a delegation from Yemen’s incumbent government with hopes for al-Hudaydah ceasefire.
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2018-12-31 07:10
Envoy blasts media silence over Saudis’ deploying Darfur children in Yemen
TEHRAN – Iran’s ambassador to London has blasted the foreign-based Persian-language media for their silence over the deployment of Darfur child soldiers at front line of war in Yemen.
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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.