A political analyst has rejected the idea that Iran is an enemy of all Saudis and by extension all Sunnis. “This long held belief that Iran is an enemy of all Saudis and by extension, all Sunnis is a lie,” Catherine Shakdam, researcher at al-Bayan Centre for Planning and Studies, tells the Tehran Times. Shakdam […]

TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that Khashoggi abduction, torture and murder was undoubtedly done on the orders of MBS.” “This is how Saudi Arabia works. Anyone who is familiar with Saudi Arabia knows this,” Hossein Askari, who served as […]

According to Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih, no one has any idea how much oil Iran will be able to export after new US sanctions against the Islamic Republic to kick off on Nov. 4. But more precisely, Iran’s shipment figures – crucial to oil markets – are already a mystery, Reuters news agency reported. […]

Stressing that a new European Union mechanism to facilitate payments for Iranian exports will be in place in coming days, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said “US cannot achieve its political goals for sure.” “With the new mechanism and given the fact that Americans are now isolated in the international community, no country would support US […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron have a serious disagreement in stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While Merkel wants to halt all arms exports to Saudi Arabia until the conduction of a thorough investigation of Khashoggi murder, Macron says that such calls are “pure […]

The deputy chief of IRGC’s Sarallah Headquarters has condemned the Saudi Arabia and Bahrain’s action in issuing a statement against three IRGC commanders, saying their move was aimed at deflecting public attention from the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. “Saudi Arabia is stuck in a quagmire from which it cannot get out easily, so they […]

TEHRAN – Richard W. Murphy, the former U.S. ambassador to Syria and Saudi Arabia, says the basic commitment of the United States to Saudi Arabia as assuring its defense against external aggression in exchange for its working to maintain stability in the global oil market. “Jamal Khashoggi’s fate has introduced a debate about human rights […]

Turkish investigators are likely to find out what happened to the body of Jamal Khashoggi before long, a senior official said on Saturday, after Saudi Arabia admitted for the first time that the journalist had been killed in its Istanbul consulate. The official, who declined to be identified, also told Reuters that Khashoggi’s DNA samples […]

 Saudi Arabia admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, saying he died in brawl but made no mention of where his body is. Kingdom sacked intelligence official and arrested 18 Saudis saying missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a ‘fist fight’. “Discussions that took place between him and […]

As Aramco’s public offering has been halted, so has the hope in Saudi Arabia’s economic reforms, which according to the young Crown Prince of the country, were intended to fulfill the Arab dream. Saudi Aramco, officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue and the most […]