Iranian Diplomacy | Ali Mousawi Khalkhali: The UAE has recently displayed a shift in its approach towards Iran. The tanker incidents in mid-June and rising tensions between Iran and the United States, have alarmed the Emiratis and prompted them to change their behavior towards Tehran. The UAE has embarked on a campaign of hostility, Iranophobia ...

MNA The UAE says there is no "clear, scientific and convincing" evidence to assign blame for the recent tanker attacks off its coast in the Sea of Oman in clear rebuttal to the US and Saudi Arabia's claims, which hold Iran responsible for the suspicious acts. UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said Wednesday, according to ...

Alwaght - Following the explosions hitting two oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hurmuz, as it was largely expected the US officials and their allies immediately pointed the fingers of blame at Iran using their media propaganda in a bid to garner global consensus against Iran and put pressures to send the case to the United Nations Security ...

MNA The UAE's briefing with UN Security Council on the May 12 oil tanker attacks, which was an attempt to implicate Iran, concluded with no evidence linking Iran to the incident. The UAE, along with Saudi Arabia and Norway, presented on Thursday the initial findings of the investigation during a briefing to United Nations ...

MNA An Iranian parliamentary official, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said Saudi Arabias ungenuine summits are in fact a political face-off with Iran. In a tweet prior to the Saudi-hosted emergency summits in Mecca on Friday, Iranian Parliament Speaker Special Aide for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian censured the Arab kingdom for convening ...

MNA Syria rejected the statement issued after Mecca-hosted summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), saying it is an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of Syria. Persian Gulf and Arab leaders convened at two emergency summits on May 30 in Mecca, hosted by Saudi Arabias King Salman. The Saudi foreign ministry cited ...

Press TV - Iraq has opposed the final statement of an emergency meeting in Saudi Arabia, which condemned what it called Iran's "interference" in countries of the Middle East region. A statement by the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council and the communiqu issued after a wider summitboth underlined the rights of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Director General for International Peace and Security, Reza Najafi, refuted Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf baseless accusations against Iran. Dismissing the unfounded accusations, the Iranian diplomat added, the Islamic Republic of Iran, as one of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, hopes that this meeting ...

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....

Sputnik - Moscow does not trust US National Security Adviser John Bolton's claims that Iran is "almost certainly" behind the recent attack on oil tankers in the UAE and qualifies this as a US attempt to impose its opinion on the whole world, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with Sputnik. "We cannot take what our ...

MNA Iran has vehemently rejected the "ludicrous" claim by US National Security Adviser John Bolton on the countrys involvement in UAE oil-tanker attacks, saying hearing such claims by an anti-Iran country is not a surprise. US National Security Adviser John Bolton said during a briefing to journalists in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi that attacks ...