The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) of Gulf Arab States will hold an extraordinary ministerial meeting in Riyadh on Saturday, January 9 to discuss the repercussions of an Iranian protest attack on the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran and the countrys General Consulate in Mashhad after the execution of a prominent Shia cleric by Saudi Arabia. MOSCOW ...

By Time (DUBAI,United Arab Emirates) While Irans military loudly trumpets every new project or purported advance in hopes of rattling the U.S. and its Gulf Arab allies, the U.S. is quietly answering with an array of proposed arms sales across the region as part of a wider effort to counter Tehran. In the past two months, the Defense Department ...

Gulf Arab leaders meeting on Monday were expected to announce closer political union, starting with two or three countries including Saudi Arabiaand Bahrain. According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will weigh closer political union at a summit of Gulf Arab leaders on Monday aimed at pooling efforts to neutralize Shi'ite Muslim protests in ...

Regional Rivals Share Angst Over Slimmed Prospects for 'Air Tight' Deal TEL AVIV AND DUBAI In the run-up to a Nov. 24 deadline for nuclear talks with Iran, leaders from Israel and gulf states are separately urging Western powers to stand firm and demand a deal that derails the regional threat from Tehran. Reflecting shared angst over dwindling ...

Islamabad: The real war between Iran and the United States, which is supported by many European countries, appears to be over energy supply deals. Under some projects, Iran will be connected to European states, Oman, Iraq and Kuwait by sharing its vast energy reserves. Iran and Oman have sealed a $60-billion agreement under which Muscat will purchase ...

Gulf Arab states are uneasy about the unexpected overture between Washington and Tehran, fearing any rapprochement will come at the price of concessions to their regional rival, analysts say. The six oil-rich monarchies have "fears and apprehensions" about the dramatic turn in US Iran policy signalled by last week's historic telephone call between ...

AfterUSandEUstepped up sanctions to curb Iran's oil exports, Gulf States, specially Saudi Arabia, decided to increase their oil outputto make upfor any shortfall in the Iranian oil exports to other countries. Referring to unpredictable consequences of the Gulf States decision, Tehran's OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi said, Iran has warned its ...

(Reuters) -Iranis working with southern secessionists in Yemen to expand its influence and destabilize the strategic region around the Straits of Hormuz, the U.S. envoy to Yemen was quoted as saying on Sunday. Yemen's state news agency Saba cited U.S. Ambassador Gerald Feierstein as accusingIranof supporting south Yemeni leaders trying to revive the ...

BOSTON We are often told that Gulf states like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are deeply worried about Iran, and eager for the United States to take care of the problem. This is usually framed as a reflection of the Sunni-Shiite divide, and linked to concerns about Iranian subversion, the role of Hezbollah, and of course the omnipresent fretting about Irans ...