TEHRAN, Jun 7 - The administration of US President Donald Trump has reportedly permitted the construction of US high-tech bomb and missile parts in Saudi Arabia, a move that could give the kingdom the green light to ramp up the use of modern weaponry in its protracted aggression on impoverished Yemen.
TEHRAN, Jun 6 - Saudi Arabia has reportedly stepped up its ballistic missile program with the help of China, with the administration of US President Donald Trump withholding intelligence on the issue.
TEHRAN, Jun 4 - France's weapons sales to Saudi Arabia rose 50 pct in 2018 despite the government calling for an end to the "dirty war" in Yemen, figures released on Tuesday showed.
TEHRAN, May 30 - Head of Iran’s delegation at a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) dismissed the accusation made by Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister that Tehran was interfering in the internal affairs of others.
TEHRAN, May 23 - Commander of Iran’s Army Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said Saudi Arabia had a role in the recent acts of sabotage in Iraq’s capital Baghdad and in the United Arab Emirates.
TEHRAN, May 17 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry roundly condemned the latest Saudi-led military coalition’s deadly airstrike on civilians in Yemeni capital of Sana’a, urging the international community to prevent the recurrence of such crimes.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Amnesty International has released a report marking the first year since the Saudi regime launched a campaign of suppression against women’s rights activists, detailing how the kingdom indulged in arrests and torture of activists as well as mass executions in “the year of shame.”
TEHRAN, May 14 - The Saudi energy minister says the kingdom has stopped pumping crude oil on a major pipeline across the country after retaliatory drone strikes carried out by Yemeni army forces and their allies.
TEHRAN, May 12 - Authorities in Sri Lanka have arrested a Saudi-educated preacher over links with the suspected mastermind of bombings last month, throwing a spotlight on the role of Salafi-Wahhabi terrorism in South Asia.
TEHRAN, May 11 - More than 200 prominent Iranian Sunni clerics in a letter to the UN chief slammed the beheadings of 37 Saudi nationals by the kingdom, calling for a detailed and independent investigation of the heinous crime.
TEHRAN, May 10 - The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has fiercely criticized the French government for supplying Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) weapons that have been used in their war on Yemen, describing the move “a clear hypocrisy to evade crimes.”
TEHRAN, May 08 - Norwegian police have temporarily moved a prominent Arab pro-democracy activist and a vocal critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to a secure place after being tipped off about a possible threat against him from the kingdom.
TEHRAN, May 07 - The deputy head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization said the dispatching of nationals to Saudi Arabia’s holy cities for performing the Umrah (minor Hajj) pilgrimage will resume if the kingdom accepts the Islamic Republic’s conditions.
TEHRAN, May 01 -Boeing and Lockheed have been awarded contracts worth more than $70 million for support of AH-64 Apache helicopters and Hellfire guided missiles for Saudi Arabia.
TEHRAN, Apr 27 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed as “baseless” the reports about Tehran’s alleged request for negotiations with the US or the beginning of political talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
TEHRAN, Apr 27 - Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh highlighted the inability of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to replace the reduced share of the Islamic Republic in global oil markets, saying they are overstating their oil production capacities.
TEHRAN, Apr 25 - Mutjaba al-Sweikat was only 17 when Saudi Arabian authorities arrested him for participating in an anti-government protest. Instead of attending university in the Midwestern US state of Michigan, he spent his late teens and early 20s in jail before being executed by beheading.
TEHRAN, Apr 25 - Yemeni army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have reportedly launched an airstrike against a command center of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in the country’s southern province of Aden.
TEHRAN, Apr 25 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry took a swipe at Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for welcoming the US decision to end waivers for importers of Iranian oil, saying they are unaware of the consequences of such a move.
TEHRAN, Apr 24 - The United Nations human rights chief has condemned the recent mass execution of nearly 40 people in a single day across Saudi Arabia, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against dissidents widens in the kingdom.