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Saudi Minister Rejects Iranian Accusation on Scientist's Killing More Reuters Mourners sit next to the coffin of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, during the burial ceremony at the shrine of Imamzadeh Saleh, in Tehran, Iran November 30, 2020. Hamed Malekpour/WANA (West Asia New...
"The resolution of the Saudi-Iranian rift serves as a testament to the efficacy of China's diplomatic endeavors in fostering regional peace," said Hamed Vafaei, a sinologist at the University of Tehran. "A more peaceful Middle East and world at large requires the participation of more peace c...
" Saudi political analyst Salman Al-Ansari told CBS News. He said the Saudis spent four decades trying to convince the U.S. government to stop "Iranian terrorism in the Middle East," but they didn't get the results they were after....
a practice the U.S. has long employed against Iran—not even relenting during natural disasters or the worst days of the pandemic. Indeed, such violence found a new target when a leading Iranian figure, Qasem Soleimani, was killed by a U.S. attack drone while he was visiting Iraq in 20...
Kugelman further warned that the country, which is “already a battleground for a Saudi-Iranian proxy war,” could see an increase in sectarian strife. “Only this time, it would have to worry about Iranian fighters and arms being shipped into Pakistan and used to counteract Pakistan’s vicio...
Iran is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has sent weapons, money and military advisers to Syria to help bolster his forces. Tehran denies it has sent combat troops, butseveral Iranian soldiers, including senior officers, have been killed on Syrian battlefields. ...
For starters, Saudi Arabia backed Iraq’s then-Sunni-led government in its bloody eight-year war with Iran. As that war dragged on, in 1987, Saudi riot police clashed with Iranian pilgrims in Mecca. Some 400 people died – most of them Iranian Shiites, according to the U.S. Institute...
The fallout of Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shiite cleric is spreading beyond a spat between the Saudis and Iranians, as other Middle East nations choose sides.
U.S. officials in particular hope that it will further ease misery in Yemen, where the Saudis and Iranians are in a proxy war but where a truce is holding. Michael Singh, former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, predicted that the Beijing initiative ...