The Wall Street Journal | Karen Elliott House: Lower prices put U.S. producers at a disadvantage, but they also cost Riyadh and imperil ties with the U.S. President Trump is playing a tense poker game with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The stakes are Americas oil industry and the U.S.-Saudi alliance. The 34-year-old prince and the president ...

Bloomberg | Nick Wadhams: Secretary of State Michael Pompeo toured a Saudi Arabian air base where the U.S. has deployed fighter jets and Patriot missile batteries to defend against Iranian attacks, a visit meant as a show of force against Iran and a sign of strong U.S.-Saudi ties. The visit Thursday to Prince Sultan ...

The National Interest | Daniel R. DePetris: The United States has a big problem in the Middle East. His name: Mohammed Bin Salman. The young Saudi crown prince once praised by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as an Arab version of Nelson Mandela (my words, not his) is back in the news again. And as has become common fare for Bin Salman, ...

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR: Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that he will urge allies later this week to contribute more to the defense of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf region to counter threats from Iran. The plan is part of a broader U.S. campaign to get NATO allies to take on more responsibility for security in the Persian Gulf, including ...

Reuters |Idrees Ali: U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, with tensions simmering between Washington and Tehran, and Russia seeking to boost its influence in the Middle East. Esper is likely to meet King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on his first trip to the key regional ally since taking office this ...

The New York Times - The United States is sending about 3,000 additional troops to Saudi Arabia in the latest military response by the Trump administration after it accused Iran of attacks last month on Saudi oil facilities, the Pentagon said on Friday. The move came only five days after President Trump said that his desire to terminate Americas ...

IRNA - Iranian foreign minister referred to US crimes in Yemen, saying Arab oil is more important than its blood in US' policy. "Arab blood vs. Arab oil / A primer on U.S. policy," Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in his Twitter account. Zarif revealed a list of US' crimes as follows: - 4 yrs of indiscriminate bombardment of Yemen - 100,000 ...

MNA Anthony Cartalucci says it surely is no coincidence the US is targeting virtually every major energy producer from Iran, Venezuela, and Russia, but also including its own "allies" such as Saudi Arabia. Following drone attacks on Saudi oil plants by Yemenis, the White House said on Saturday that the United States was committed to keeping oil ...

MNA US Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Friday he will meet new Saudi energy minister and likely discuss Saudi Arabia's plans to build nuclear reactors. US Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Friday he will meet the new Saudi energy minister on Monday and likely discuss plans Saudi Arabia has to build nuclear reactors, reports Aljazeera. Perry ...

Tasnim US President Donald Trump vetoed three joint resolutions prohibiting arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, rejecting an attempt by congressional lawmakers to halt the controversial weapons transfers. In messages to the Senate, Trump announced he was returning the bipartisan bills that would have blocked licensing for certain ...

Tasnim The United States is sending hundreds of troops to Saudi Arabia, two Defense Department officials said. The roughly 500 troops are part of a broader tranche of forces sent to the region over the past two months after tensions between Washington and Tehran escalated. CNN first reported the plans to deploy more troops on Wednesday night....

DW - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is making surprise visits to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to ensure that they are "strategically aligned" on Iran. It comes amid escalating tensions after Iran shot down a US drone. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Jeddah on Monday for talks amid heightened tensions with Iran. The top US diplomat was ...

IRNA The US is spreading Iranophobia to milk and blackmail the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, former Iraqi lawmaker said. The US aims to blackmail littoral states of the Persian Gulf by spreading Iranophobia, Hanan Al Fatlawi, head of the Eradaa Movement and former Iraqi lawmaker said. She made the remarks in an exclusive interview with ...

Sputnik - US President Donald Trump discussed maintaining pressure on Iran, human rights issues and Middle East stability in a phone conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the White House said in a press release. "President Donald Trump had a productive conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed", the release said on Tuesday....

Press TV - bipartisan group of American lawmakers have raised concerns about Washingtons nuclear dealings with Saudi Arabia despite Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmans deeply troubling actions and his not-so-secret penchant for acquiring nuclear weapons. In a letter drafted to US Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Tuesday, Senators Robert Menendez, the ...

Tasnim An American political scientist said the Trump administrations secret plan to nuclearize Saudi Arabia and its recognition of Israels sovereignty over Golan are both parts of a major plot to set up an alliance against Iran in the region. It is clear that with its consolidation of military presence in oil and gas-rich eastern Syria, its backing ...

MNA Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, has warned about the pursuit of suspicious nuclear projects by certain countries in the region. Some have put it on their agenda to carry out suspicious nuclear projects by squandering their petrodollars, Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security ...

AFP - US allies in the Middle East risk an uprising by their "humiliated citizens" if they continue to rely on Washington, a top Iranian security official warned Sunday in comments carried by state media. "(US President) Trump and even his underlings ridicule and humiliate Saudi Arabia and the (United Arab) Emirates day and night, saying that you're ...

Tasnim A New report from Democrats in the US House of Representatives concluded that the Trump administration is selling US nuclear secret to Saudis. President Donald Trumps former national security adviser and other White House officials pushed a venture to bring nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia over repeated legal and ethical warnings that ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says the kingdom is in talks with the United States about a new security alliance of Arab countries specifically aimed at countering Iran. Speaking at a press briefing inRiyadh Sunday, the Saudi FM said the new pact would be similar in style to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ...