FNA - Social media activists in the Arab world rapped Saudi Arabia for allowing the first-ever commercial flight from Israels Ben Gurion airport on Monday to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through its airspace. The El Al flight was carrying an Israeli delegation headed by national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabat and US diplomats led by Jared Kushner,...

AP The U.S. is pulling two Patriot missile batteries and some fighter aircraft out of Saudi Arabia, an American official said Thursday, amid tensions between the kingdom and the Trump administration over oil production. The official said the decision removes two batteries that were guarding oil facilities in Saudi Arabia but leaves two Patriot ...

Reuters - Saudi Arabia imposed a temporary lockdown on Sunday on the eastern oil-producing province of Qatif, home to all 11 people in the kingdom who have tested positive for the coronavirus, and suspended all schools and universities nationwide. The interior ministry announced the lockdown in Qatif, which has a large Shiite Muslim population, ...

RT - Saudi Arabias crown prince has had his relatives arrested for plotting a coup against him and King Salman with the help of foreign powers, including the Americans, Western media claim. RT asked Middle East analysts to weigh in. Three senior members of the Saudi Royal family were arrested on Friday, several Western media outlets have reported,...

RT - Saudi Arabia has imposed a temporary ban on religious pilgrimage, known as Umrah, to historic Islamic shrines in Mecca and Medina over the coronavirus outbreak that has recently spread to the Middle East. The oil-rich kingdom announced on Wednesday that the restrictions were put in place to provide the utmost protection to those living in Saudi ...

The Globe And Mail - Canada has soared in global rankings to become the second biggest arms dealer to the Middle East on the strength of its massive sale of combat vehicles to Saudi Arabia, new figures show. It's a first for Canada, according to IHS Jane's, the defence industry publisher that tracks military spending. Canada was previously the sixth-...

Tasnim Saudi Arabia has suffered a defeat at the International Maritime Organization after it failed to be re-elected to the IMO Council for the next term, Irans ambassador to the UK said. In a post on his Twitter account on Friday, Iranian Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeidinejad said two Arab allies of Saudi Arabia refused to quit the race for ...

IRNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said based on their own sayings, Israel and Saudi Arabia made US President Donald Trump decide to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Rouhani made the remarks addressing Kerman administrative council meeting on Tuesday. No one in the world is now able ...

Tasnim Saudi Arabia has released 19 Iranian fishermen detained 10 months ago, an Iranian official said. Head of the Iranian Foreign Ministrys office in the southern province of Bushehr told Tasnim on Thursday that the 19 fishermen, the crew of two separate fishing boats, have been repatriated after diplomatic consultations with the Saudi authorities....

RT - Footage proves last weeks attack on an Iranian oil tanker was carried out by the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, a member of Irans National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Wednesday. The evidence will be taken to the UN and the Security Council so that those countries behind this terrorist attack would pay for their action, Abolfazl ...

AFP - Saudi Arabia said Saturday it was ready to help the Iranian tanker that was allegedly attacked off the kingdom's coast, but the ship turned off its tracking system. The National Iranian Tanker Company, which owns the Sabiti, said its hull was hit by two separate explosions on Friday off the Saudi port of Jeddah. But the state-owned company ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia has joined a US-led naval mission purportedly aimed at protecting shipping lanes in Middle Eastern waterways as Washington and Riyadh engage in another blame game against Iran following massive Yemeni drone attacks on key Saudi oil facilities. Quoting an official source in the Defense Ministry, the state-run Saudi Press Agency ...

MNA A spokesman for Saudi Arabia's interior ministry confirmed that drones have hit two oil facilities of Saudi Arabia's state oil giant Aramco in Abqaiq, east of the country. The statement did not identify the source of the attack. According to RT, footage has surfaced online of a huge blaze ravaging what is reported to be oil giant Saudi Aramcos ...

MNA Omid Shokr says Saudi Arabia is playing active diplomacy with some of Iran's oil consumers in China and India to get more share of the energy market. Tensions between Iran and the US in the Persian Gulf region has resulted in recent measures of the Persian Gulf littoral states' logical moves which are based on their national interests and logic ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry lashed out at the Saudi-led military coalition for pursuing a plot to split Yemen, reaffirming Tehrans support for a united Yemen with an inclusive government. In a statement on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi commented on the latest developments in south of Yemen, saying, The coalition of Saudi ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a Twitter message criticized US for adopting double standards waging Economic Terrorism against Iran accusing Iran of bomb ambition amid press reports to provide the Saudi government with nuclear technology. He made a reference to the Saudi government equipped ISIS terrorists to invade Iraq ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi has given details on the return of an Iranian oil tanker that broke down off Jeddah port early in May by Saudi Arabia. Yesterday, after two and half months, Saudi authorities allowed the Iranian oil tanker Happiness, all its crew and two other ships to leave Jeddah to return to Iran. Today,...

ISNA | Mona Hoobfekr: Hajj pilgrims are departing for Saudi Arabia to take part at Hajj 2019. The Hajj is a religious Islamic duty that must be carried out at least once in the lifetime of every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so.    ...

MNA The first groups of Hajj pilgrims left Iran for Madinah Airport in Saudi Arabia, from nine airports throughout the country, on Monday morning. As one of the major international airports in the country, Imam Khomeini Airport City has started operating Hajj flights by transporting 30,000 pilgrims from Tehran, Qom, Alborz, Qazvin, Lorestan, Kordestan,...

Press TV - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Saudi Arabia is responsible for the safety of this year's Hajj Islamic pilgrimage and must guarantee that all pilgrims will be treated with respect. Ayatollah Khamenei told Iranian Hajj officials on Wednesday that Riyadh faced the tall task of "ensuring the pilgrims' ...