Tags - Middle East
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is said to have maintained close relationship with his former aide Ahmed al-Asiri, who is supposedly in prison over charges of leading a hit squad that murdered dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey last year.
News ID: 444697 Publish Date : 2019/05/05
Hezbollah official:
The deputy secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has described Saudi Arabia as the root cause of instability in the Middle East , stating that the incumbent regime in Riyadh is sponsoring fiendish US and Israeli crimes in the region.
News ID: 444549 Publish Date : 2019/04/29
Nasrallah:
The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has censured the United States for designating Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group, stating that the move is a concrete proof that Washington has miserably failed in its plots in the Middle East .
News ID: 444280 Publish Date : 2019/04/12
Amnesty:
Amnesty International says the “deeply repressive” Bahraini regime is trying to rehabilitate its image by hosting the Formula One race.
News ID: 444054 Publish Date : 2019/03/29
Pundit:
The United States is providing its Middle East ern allies like Saudi Arabia with nuclear technology in order to escalate arms race in the region, says a commentator.
News ID: 444050 Publish Date : 2019/03/29
Bahrain on Wednesday sentenced a liberal opposition figure to six months in jail for tweeting criticism of Sudan's president, who has been facing protests against his rule, rights groups said.
News ID: 443915 Publish Date : 2019/03/14
Report:
The Middle East accounted for more than half of all the United States arms sales last year, a senior Pentagon official revealed, saying Washington seeks to increase the figure in the coming years.
News ID: 443571 Publish Date : 2019/02/22
While the world has clearly vastly changed since the 19th century, the statesmen of 19th-century Europe would have recognized the political workings of the world in the 21st. Some 200 years on, there is still almost no country that would not want to expand its influence — if no more its territory — abroad, at least in its immediate neighborhood.
News ID: 443139 Publish Date : 2019/01/24
Influential Zionist historian Benny Morris, professor of the Middle East studies department of the Israeli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has foreseen a bleak future for the Zionist establishment.
News ID: 443074 Publish Date : 2019/01/19
Iran has dismissed as unfounded recent allegations made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo against the Islamic Republic, urging all regional countries to heighten their vigilance in the face of the "divisive policies and plots" of American officials.
News ID: 442971 Publish Date : 2019/01/12
Diplomat:
The United States does not want the eradication of terrorism and Daesh terrorist group in the Middle East but rather it desires to command them in order to keep tensions in the region, an Iranian diplomat says.
News ID: 442721 Publish Date : 2018/12/30
Ron Paul:
Former US presidential candidate and congressman Ron Paul has backed President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from Syria, adding that the United States needs to "have a clean cut" with military involvement in the Middle East .
News ID: 442607 Publish Date : 2018/12/24
FM Zarif:
Rasa - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says under the current tumultuous conditions in the Middle East , dialogue and respect for international law are among the most important factors that pave the way for making the region strong.
News ID: 442011 Publish Date : 2018/12/10
Analyst:
RNA - Western powers are taking advantage of the divide and rule policy to create a ‘mess’ in the Middle East , says an analyst, adding that the problem lies in the fact that Muslims countries are not united.
News ID: 441744 Publish Date : 2018/11/26
Rasa Lebanese President Michel Aoun says the Tel Aviv regime is attempting to create division in the Middle East , and split the region along social and religious fault lines.
News ID: 440698 Publish Date : 2018/09/25
Iran's security chief:
Rasa - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani says terrorism and its root causes are to blame for the existing crisis across the Middle East and are hindering progress of Muslim countries.
News ID: 440692 Publish Date : 2018/09/25
Rasa - A United Arab Emirate minister has claimed that his country can take on a bigger military role in the region, saying it can no longer rely on Western allies like the United States and Britain for its security.
News ID: 438848 Publish Date : 2018/07/28
Rasa - Iran's Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Eshaq Al-e Habib blasted the Israeli Knesset declaration on recognition of a Jewish state, and said the Tel Aviv regime is the main sponsor of terrorism in the region.
News ID: 438824 Publish Date : 2018/07/27
Rasa - Human rights NGOs gathered on Wednesday at the UN headquarters in Geneva called for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to comply with international standards with regards to human rights.
News ID: 438551 Publish Date : 2018/07/05
Rasa - The United Nations is trying, so far in vain, to come up with a common policy with regard to its relevance when it comes to international justice, peace and security.
News ID: 438498 Publish Date : 2018/07/02