Suspected rocket attack damages Iranian vessel causing an oil leak off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah. An Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea was hit by two suspected rockets on Friday off the [ More … ]
Arrangements and deals for Iranians to participate in the upcoming Hajj pilgrimage have been completed, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), after the Iranians refused to take part in last year’s pilgrimage. Relations between [ More … ]
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani sent a letter on Monday to Kuwait’s ruler, Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, state media reported, in a new chapter of defusing the tension between Iran and Gulf countries. Tension has mounted [ More … ]
Iran said on Sunday there had been a progress in talks with Saudi Arabia on allowing Iranian citizens to join this year’s Hajj, despite some remaining issues. Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia was strained after [ More … ]
Assad regime’s expected victory in Aleppo, in which the Iranian militias played a crucial part, will increase Syrian and Iranian influence in Lebanon as Saudi Arabia retreated and Assad said Lebanon could not remain unscathed by regional [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia started this year in a very strong position, putting pressure on Iran in many fronts politically, militarily and economically. However, the year witnessed many changes that have put Saudi Arabia in the defensive position [ More … ]
OPEC members have in recent months repeatedly met to discuss production cuts. The cartel’s members are suffering from the dramatic decline in oil prices over the past two years, which has seen crude dropping to [ More … ]
Iran has criticized the reelection of Saudi Arabia to the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying that the UN is failing in its main goal of providing peace. A Sunday report by the official IRNA news [ More … ]
“Why Saudis hate us?,” asked my Iranian reader. “I’m Farsi, and regardless of what the Arabs did to us 1,400 years ago, I have Arab friends and enjoy Arabic music and dance. I don’t hate [ More … ]
Iran’s chief Armed Forces spokesman said Saudi Arabia and its allies are too weak to engage in a military confrontation with the Tehran. “Saudi Arabia has by no means the capability to confront Iran and [in [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia recently began its naval war games that included live fire exercises in the Arabian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil route, while Iran warned it from breaching its regional [ More … ]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) warned Saudi naval vessels taking part in military exercises in the Gulf on Wednesday not to get close to Iranian waters, in a sign of heightened tensions between the two regional [ More … ]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said during a visit to the US that Iran has security and safety while Saudi Arabia is suffering from the terrorism it created. The Iranian minister made the remarks [ More … ]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic is not interested in “any provocation” with the United States, and that Saudi Arabia is making desperate moves not to lose US support. The Iranian [ More … ]
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