Alwaght- The US-Saudi friendship at the present time is not as golden as two decades ago- the good days in which such Saudi princes as Bandar bin Sultan, the former kingdoms intelligence chief who is known as Bandar Bush stepped out of the formality of the diplomatic etiquettes and held warm personal relations with the American officials. To put it ...

The ditching of Saudi Prince Bandar as the oil kingdom's spymaster does not portend a retreat by Saudi Arabia from its covert dirty wars or its hard-line anti-Shia hostility. The move has more to do with Saudi problems of maintaining internal stability, while also giving the Saudi rulers a scapegoat over its failure at regime change in Syria. Nearly ...

"Prince Bandar was relieved of his post at his own request and General Youssef al-Idrissi was asked to carry out the duties of the head of general intelligence," state news agency SPA said. Saudi Arabian intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the architect of Riyadh's attempts to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been removed ...

Prince Bandar bin Sultan is on his way back to Riyadh where he will resume his tasks as head of Saudi Intelligence,reported news portal NOWLebanon. An informed Saudi source confirmed the report to Al Arabiya News. This is without doubt bad news for Tehran, Damascus and Hezbollah, particularly that anti-Saudi media has been propagating false information ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A prominent Lebanese political analyst said Saudi Arabias veteran intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan has been sidelined due to the failure of his Syria mission. Director of Lebanons Center for Arab and International Studies Ghalib Qandil told Tasnim on Tuesday that Bandar was replaced as the leader of Saudi Arabias ...

Saudi Arabia has sidelined its intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, by transferring key aspects of the Syrian dossier to Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, diplomatic sources said. A Western diplomat in the Persian Gulf region told AFP on Thursday that Prince Bandar is no longer in charge of the Syrian dossier, leaving Prince Nayef ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A new study by former UN weapons inspector Richard Lloyd, and MIT Professor Theodore A Postol, presented new details to the evidence about the war crime in Syria that almost led to a NATO led military aggression and a full scale regional war in the Middle East. On 7 October 2013, nsnbc international published a detailed analysis ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi Arabia has all the vices and none of the virtues of an oil rich state like Venezuela. The country is governed by a family dictatorship which tolerates no opposition and severely punishes human rights advocates and political dissidents. Hundreds of billions in oil revenues are controlled by the royal despotism and fuel speculative ...

A political commentator has said that the policies adopted by authorities in Saudi Arabia are leading the kingdoms foreign affairs into failure. Saudi Arabias foreign policy is experiencing a string of defeats on a daily basis, Fuad Ibrahim stated in a recent article published in the media. Saudi spy chief Bandar bin Sultan has pushed the country ...

A Saudi terrorist who launched recent deadly attack on Iranian embassy in Lebanon took orders from Saudi spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Lebanese sources have informed Al-Alam. On November 19, two bomb attacks outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut killed 25 people and injured more than 150. Lebanese information sources told Al-Alam, on condition ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior military delegation from Saudi Arabia secretly visited the Zionist entity to discuss the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the world powers last month, the Israeli and Arab media reports said. Israeli radio reported that Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Salman bin-Sultan, who is the brother of Saudi Arabias spy chief Prince ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi Intelligence Chief Bandar Bin Sultan has returned to Russia to once again try to tilt Moscow's stance on Syria after his first attempt a few months ago ended in a total fiasco, media sources said, adding that he has already met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The Russian Foreign Ministry has declared in a statement ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan near Moscow and discussed the war in Syria and Irans nuclear programme, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Russia has staunchly supported President Bashar al-Assad during the conflict, which has killed more than 100,000 people since March 2011, while Saudi Arabia has ...

Saudi Arabia and Israels Mossad intelligence division are co-conspiring to produce a computer worm more destructive than the Stuxnet malware to sabotage Irans nuclear program, according to a report from the semi-official Iranian Fars news agency. Saudi spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and director of Israels Mossad intelligence ...

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, Irans lead nuclear negotiator, has said that Tehran and the 5+1 Powerswill begin talks next weekon implementation of the interim nuclear deal reached in Geneva on November 24. Foreign Ministry directors general from Iran and the P5+1 will hold a meeting next week to review the details of implementing the agreement,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi Arabia and Israel are making strenuous attempts to produce a computer worm more destructive than the Stuxnet malware designed to disrupt Iran's nuclear program after they failed to block a nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers. Saudi spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and director of Israels ...

A London-based Arabic language newspaper has revealed the reasons behind the deep differences between Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan and the US administration. Citing diplomatic sources,Al-Quds Al-Arabinewspaper said in an article published on Friday that Washingtons disclosure of intelligence on a planned coup organized ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudis and Israelis wanted to sink the negotiated deal on Irans nuclear program, so the French launched the diplomatic torpedo to take it down. But behind Frances action were Saudi financial muscle and Israels political skill. Frances sabotage of a compromise agreement on Irans nuclear program is a textbook case of how the new Saudi-...

A political analyst says the ongoing Middle East tour by US Secretary of State John Kerry is merely aimed at patching up Washingtons frayed relations with its client regimes,Press TVreports. In an article published on Press TV website on Monday, Finian Cunningham wrote, It is transparent... that the urgent purpose of Kerrys 11-day mission is to patch ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- During his recent visit to Moscow some weeks ago, Saudi intelligence chief Bandar bin Sultan told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Saudi-controlled militants in the Caucasus will not disrupt the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi only if Russia backed away from its support for Syria, and Putin rejected the proposal furiously, reports ...