TEHRAN, December 09 -A Saudi television anchor has been banned from his own talk show after leveling criticism against the dismal performance of a number of government institutions as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues unabated in the conservative country.
TEHRAN, December 08 - A report in the Washington Post says the Israeli government was directly involved in the sale of sophisticated spyware to Saudi Arabia to help the kingdom purge and assassinate dissidents.
TEHRAN, December 03 - The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces says the Saudi-led military coalition continues to use internationally-banned weapons, particularly cluster bombs, in its aerial bombardment of residential neighborhoods in Yemen despite a global outcry against the use of such munitions by Saudi Arabia and its allies.
TEHRAN, December 03 -Iran says Saudi Arabia is not willing to change course even though it continues to pay the price for its own mistakes, leaving little to hope for in terms of improving ties.
TEHRAN, December 03 - One of the world’s key energy producers, Qatar, is quitting the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on January 1, Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi said. Qatar has been an OPEC member for 57 years.
TEHRAN, November 28 -Argentina has agreed to proceed with a case against Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over war crimes in Yemen at a request by Human Rights Watch.
TEHRAN, November 26 -Saudi Arabia has subjected many human rights activists and dissidents opposed to Riyadh to torture and death, with some going through a more horrifying ordeal than Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a former American diplomat in Saudi Arabia.
TEHRAN, November 25_Several US Republican senators have again rejected President Donald Trump’s defense of Saudi Arabia after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, with some lawmakers from his party saying Congress must take additional action.
TEHRAN, November 17 - At least five Saudi-paid Sudanese soldiers have lost their lives when Yemeni army troops and fighters from allied Popular Committees launched an attack in the country’s strategic western province of Hudaydah.
TEHRAN, November 15 -Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says the 15-man Saudi team involved in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi should be tried in Turkey.
TEHRAN, November 13 -A political expert says Saudi Arabia will never be able to assassinate Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani because Iranian counter-intelligence is “impeccable.”
TEHRAN, November 12 -Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Falih rejected speculations that Riyadh is studying the prospects of the elimination of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), stressing that no plan to that effect is on agenda.
TEHRAN, November 12 -Yemeni forces have pushed back a large-scale assault by militants and mercenaries on the port city of Hudaydah, a source in the so-called Saudi coalition has told Agence France-Presse.
TEHRAN, November 11 -Yemeni officials say a massive Saudi push against Hudaydah on the west coast of Yemen has been defeated, with a number of Sudanese mercenaries killed or captured.
TEHRAN, November 10 -Saudi Arabia is seeking to capture Yemen’s main port city of Hudaydah in an attempt to gain a “strong position” in any forthcoming political negotiations to end the conflict in the impoverished Arab nation, says a Middle expert.
TEHRAN, November 09 - Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed on October 2 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, might have lost his life for disclosing Riyadh’s funding of an anti-Iran UK-based TV channel, the British daily Guardian suggests.
TEHRAN, November 08 - At least six civilians have been killed when Saudi military aircraft carried out airstrikes against a residential area in Yemen’s strategic western province of Hudaydah as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its atrocious bombardment campaign against its southern neighbor.
TEHRAN, November 06 - Staff at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul tried to dismantle closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV) of the premises in an attempt to help cover up the gruesome murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the diplomatic mission last month, a report says.
TEHRAN, November 05 -Thousands of Yemeni civilians have been trapped on the southern outskirts of Hudaydah as the key port city has become the flashpoint of a war by Riyadh and its allies against the Arab world's poorest nation, international aid groups say.
TEHRAN, November 04 -Yemen’s armed forces have decisively countered an all-out Saudi offensive, which was in the works for days to seize the country’s strategic Red Sea port.