Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hit back at Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, and said the kingdom cannot be called a normal country after its moves to cause a humanitarian crisis in Yemen and to assassinate Jamal Khashoggi. Normal countries dont operate abattoirs disguised as consulates. Normal countries ...

Euronews | Dan De Luce and Robert Windrem: Persian Gulf Arab states are on edge after President Donald Trump's decision to kill top Iranian commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani, fearing tensions between the United States and Iran could spiral into a military conflict on their doorstep with devastating economic effects, according to foreign diplomats, former ...

Reuters - A senior Saudi official said on Thursday that a policy of appeasement would not work with Iran and that the only way to get Tehran to the negotiating table was to apply maximum pressure. Saudi Minister of State Adel al-Jubeir was in Paris for talks with French officials amid efforts to defuse U.S.-Iranian tensions and help Yemens Saudi-...

Reuters - A Saudi minister said on Sunday that Riyadh was not behind a suspected strike against an Iranian-owned oil tanker in the Red Sea, which Iranian state-run television said was hit on Friday by missiles but denied reports they came from Saudi Arabia. We did not engage in such behavior at all. This is not how we operate and thats not how we ...

Sputnik - Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir and US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook have commented on the increasing tensions between Iran and the United States. Iran can either sit at the negotiating table or continue to watch its economy "crumble", US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook stated. According ...

BBC - Saudi Arabia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, has told the BBC that his country does not want war with Iran, but will not tolerate what it considers hostile Iranian activity in the Middle East. The Saudi king is hosting two emergency summits of Gulf and Arab leaders in the holy city of Mecca to discuss growing tensions....

MNA Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir made baseless accusations against Tehran at a Sunday press conference. He accused Tehran of sponsoring terrorism and interfering in Arab countries internal affairs while claiming that Riyadh wants peace and stability. Saudi Arabia does not want a war with Iran but will respond with strength ...

IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi described Saudi Arabia as father-in-law of Takfiri terrorism in the region and world, saying that Saudi government which is origin of organized terrorism lacks authority to accuse others of supporting terrorism. He made the remarks in reaction to false and malicious statements of former Saudi Foreign ...

Tasnim An American political analyst said Saudi King Salman demoted Adel al-Juebeir and appointed Ibrahim al-Assaf as the new foreign minister in a cabinet reshuffle in an attempt to balance out the recklessness of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman over the case of Jamal Khashoggi. Adel al-Juebeir is being made into the fall guy for the Khashoggi ...

Press TV - Saudi King Salman hasdemoted Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in a major reshuffle, which included changes to key national security posts amidfallout from the murder of a dissidentjournalist. The man to replace him,Ibrahim al-Assaf,was no less of a surprise because he wasamong dozens of prominent Saudi royals and businessmen detained inRiyadh's ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday, December 29, 2018, and picked headlines from 11 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in all papers today was the dismissal of Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir as part of a major cabinet ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says the kingdom is in talks with the United States about a new security alliance of Arab countries specifically aimed at countering Iran. Speaking at a press briefing inRiyadh Sunday, the Saudi FM said the new pact would be similar in style to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia says it is not sending back two of its former senior officials to Turkey, which seeks to arrest them on suspicion of planning the October murder of a renowned Saudi dissident journalist. "We don't extradite our citizens," Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference at the annual [Persian] Gulf Cooperation ...

Reuters - Saudi Arabias foreign minister said on Tuesday that claims, including by the CIA, that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gave the order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi were false, according to an Arabic-language newspaper interview. News outlets, including Reuters, reported the CIAs finding over the weekend in a case that has sparked ...

IRNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he has no knowledge of any telephonic contact between the Saudi foreign minister and Iranian authorities. He said this while talking to reporters at the conclusion of his Pakistan visit in Islamabad. Replying to a question Zarif said, 'I do not have any information about telephonic contact ...

ISNA - Alkhaleej Online claimed that Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir established secret contacts with Iran weeks ago to reach political understanding. The Arabic-language network quoted a senior diplomatic source revealed to Alkhaleej Online that there are secret contacts between Saudi Arabia and Iran to reach political understandings. According ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia, which has been implicated in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, claims that the kingdom is promoting the vision of "light" in the Middle East. Speaking at a security summit in the Bahraini capitalManamaon Saturday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir insisted that the regime was combating what he called ...

CNBC - Saudi Arabiaon Sunday called the killing of journalistJamal Khashoggiat its Istanbul consulate a "huge and grave mistake," but sought to shield its powerful crown prince from the widening crisis, sayingMohammed bin Salmanhad not been aware. The comments from Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir were some of the most direct yet from Riyadh, which ...

Press TV - Iran has rejected recent unfounded and hackneyed allegations made by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Ahmed al-Jubeir against Tehran, saying Riyadh is undoubtedly the most infamous sponsor of terrorism in the world. "The root cause of terrorism that has engulfed the entire world, particularly the Middle East, is nowhere but Saudi Arabia and ...

Press TV- Praising the US for abandoning the Iran nuclear deal, the Saudi foreign minister has threatened that the kingdom will make nuclear bombs if the Islamic Republic moves to develop an atomic weapons program. We have made it very clear that if Iran acquires a nuclear capability we will do everything we can to do the same, Saudi Arabias Foreign ...