Press TV - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has stated that teams from Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer need to meet each other in neutral venues. Speaking at an AFC Competitions Committee session in the Japanese capital city of Tokyo on Friday, Presidentof the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of ...

Sputnik - Saudi Arabia praises a hardline policy of Donald Trump toward Iran as relations between Teheran and Riyadh have been strained for a long time. The Sunni-led kingdom considers Shia Iran to be its main rival in the Middle East. MOSCOW (Sputnik) Saudi King Salman bin Adulaziz Al Saud held a telephone conversation withUS President ...

IFP - A top Iranian official says Iran and Saudi Arabia have not yet made any decision to open interest sections in the two countries. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari has, in a Farsi interview with ISNA, discussed a whole range of issues, including Iranian-Saudi relations. The following are highlights of the interview:...

IRNA Caretaker of Irans Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Hamid Mohammadi and Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah Mohammed bin Saleh bin Tahir Benten reviewed in a meeting details about providing due services to the Iranian pilgrims during 2017 Hajj rituals. The meeting also focused on the issue of acceleration of following up the Mina tragedy in 2015 ...

The Globalist | James M. Dorsey: Saudi Arabias King Salman hopes to exploit a window of opportunity while in Beijing to loosen Chinas affiliations with Iran. But he faces long odds. The Saudi battle with Iran is fundamentally unequal because Iran brings assets to the table that Saudi Arabia lacks. Those assets, no matter how degraded, include ...

IRNA Senior Hajj official on Friday said talks with Saudi officials have not been finalized yet and the two sides are still discussing some remaining issues mostly the iisue of Iranian martyrs in Mina stampede tragedy in 2015. Negotiations on remaining issues are underway and results will be made public on due time, Caretaker of Hajj and Pilgrimage ...

Press TV- Iran has welcomeda Chinese offerto play a mediatory role and help settle the differences between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which unilaterally severed ties with the Islamic Republic last year. In a Friday statement, the Iranian Embassy in Beijing criticized Saudi Arabias foreign policy, saying Riyadh has destabilized the region and the entire ...

IRNA Acting Head of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Hamid Mohammadi said on Thursday that negotiation with Saudi Arabia on 2017 Hajj ritual had relatively progress and is continuing. He said that policy-making, planning, defining and compiling indices and services standards as well as supervision on service operations for pilgrims are among the ...

Al Monitor| Arash Karami: Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on March 8 made a rare trip to Doha to meet his counterpart, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, as well as the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The last time Zarif traveled to Doha was in 2015, as part of efforts to reassure Arab neighbors in the Persian ...

Tasnim Irans Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization said there have been relative progress in the ongoing negotiations between Tehran and Riyadh about the dispatch of Iranian nationals to Saudi Arabia for Hajj this summer. The process of negotiations about the Hajj pilgrimage has made relative progress after some of the demands of the Islamic Republic ...

Tasnim Iran plans to send at least 80,000 nationals to Saudi Arabia for Hajj pilgrimage this summer provided that remaining issues are resolved in the ongoing talks with Riyadh, the representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Hajj and pilgrimage affairs said. Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Sunday, Ali Qazi-Askar highlighted ...

Sputnik- On February 25, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Adel Al-Jubeir made a surprising visit to Iraq. Al-Jubeirs trip was the first official visit to Iraq by a Saudi foreign minister since 1990 and the first high-level visit since the 2003 United States-led invasion. At a press-conference, the minister said that the kingdom is seeking tobuild ...

RT- The neutral stance of Iraq can provide ground for rapprochement between geopolitical rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said as he arrived for an unannounced visit to Baghdad. During his trip, Jubeir met with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. The visiting Saudi ...

Press TV- An Iranian delegation, which is currently in Saudi Arabia for talks on the potential resumption of Hajj pilgrimages by Iranians, has held a second meeting with Saudi Arabian Pilgrimage Minister Mohammed Bentin. The delegation met with the Saudi minister at the Pilgrimage Ministry in Jeddah for a second time on Friday, IRNA reported,...

Press TV- Iran will send pilgrims to this years Hajj rituals if Saudi Arabia accepts the Islamic Republics conditions, says the Iranian minister of culture and Islamic guidance. Reza Salehi-Amiri said on the sidelines of a cabinet session on Wednesday that Iran had sent a delegation to Saudi Arabia to follow up on the issue of Hajj for Iranian ...

IFP- In his first press conference, Reza Salehi Amiri, the Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, explained Irans conditions to resume sending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. The Islamic Republics official policy is to ensure that the dignity and security of its pilgrims is guaranteed in Hajj pilgrimage, he noted, according to a report by IFP....

MNA Iranian Oil Minister Zanganeh, while emphasizing that Iran assumed no barrier to talks with Saudi Arabia on oil market issues, said bilateral talks will continue within framework of national and mutual interests. Bijan Zanganeh touched upon Irans plans for pursuing talks with Saudi Arabia in the field of crude market and continuation of cooperation ...

IRNA Caretaker of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, Hamid Mohammadi, said on Wednesday that an Iranian delegation is due to visit Saudi Arabia for talks with Saudi officials over Hajj pilgrimage. If the two sides reach an agreement, the way will be paved for sending Iranian pilgrims to the next annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, Mohammadi said....

Press TV- The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed the recent insulting claims by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir against the Islamic Republic, saying such allegations are aimed at distorting the existing realities in the Middle East. It is Saudi Arabia, which has been the breeding ground forthe emergence and growthof terrorism in the ...

IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Qasemi, said on Monday that Iran does not favor a severing of relations with Saudi Arabia forever. Qasemi made the remarks in his weekly press conference. He said that however, Saudi government still insists to continue the previous path. 'The country still beats the former drum; we have not yet observed ...