Saudi Arabia claimed the suspension of all oil shipments through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait after Yemen’s Popular Committees attacked on two crude-carrying vessels. Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia Khalid A. Al-Falih said on Thursday the kingdom would halt all oil shipments through the strait immediately. The suspension will last “until the […]

In reaction to a Saudi delegation’s yesterday visit to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi politician Iskander Witwit warned that Saudi Arabia is getting closer to the Iraqi Kurds with the aim of breaking up Iraq. Iskander Witwit, who has served as head of the Iraqi parliamentary security committee and now is one of the leader of second […]

 Iranian Parliament Director General for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Tel Aviv aspires to disintegrate Islamic countries, and Saudi Arabia is not an exception. He made the remarks in a Sunday meeting with Zeineb Barjawi, the wife of martyr Samir Kuntar, a Hezbollah resistance movement commander who was martyred in an Israeli missile attack on […]

 Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters killed dozens of Saudi and Sudanese mercenaries in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Jizan, a report said. According to Saba news agency on Monday, the Saudi and Sudanese forces were killed as Yemeni forces targeted their positions near Tiwal border crossing in Jizan. During the attack, large amounts of Saudi weaponry, […]

The war the Saudi-UAE-US coalition launched on March 26, 2015, against Yemen has not achieved its goals. In addition to the casualties of its forces and its mercenaries, the war costs the UAE about $ 1.3 billion per month or $16 billion a year. This war has increased its impact on the UAE, its economy […]

 Reuters market analyst John Kemp has warned against the consequences of Iran’s oil removal from the global markets. MNA republishes the Reuters market analyst’s article published on July 9. The text of the article is as follows: The United States wants to eliminate all Iran’s crude oil exports from November, and is relying on Saudi Arabia […]

 South Korea has been included in the list of the possible candidates for a nuclear power plant construction project in Saudi Arabia. A fierce bidding war is anticipated among the five shortlisted countries, including the United States, China, France and Russia. The Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy announced on July 1 that the Korea […]

In reaction to Donald Trump’s tweet yesterday, Iran’s OPEC governor, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said that Saudi Arabia cannot add 2mn bpd to the oil market. “Putting aside the fact that Saudi Arabia has no such capacity to bolster its crude output, this demand [by Trump] could be inferred as an order for the kingdom to […]

Saudi Arabian women celebrated being able to drive for the first time in decades Sunday, as the kingdom overturned the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility. The move is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s wide-ranging drive to modernise the conservative […]

TEHRAN – Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the parliament speaker, says the Saudi-led blockade on Yemen is aimed at forcing Yemeni people to give up under starvation. “Under KSA-UAE-US-Zionists’ occupying war against Yemenis, humanitarian disaster is rife,” Amir-Abdollahian tweeted on Saturday, Mehr reported. “The invaders lost the Yemen battlefield, but want to […]