Middle East

An Iranian political commentator says Iran should distance itself from the Saudi-Qatari crisis.

The former US Secretary of State has been quoted as saying that the Obama administration was under heavy pressure from certain countries in the Middle East to bomb the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Saudi snipers have opened fire at unarmed women and children in their houses in al-Awamiyah village in the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shiite-populated Eastern Province.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says prolonging the current crisis in the relations between certain countries in the Middle East is not in the interest of any regional state.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari says Saudi Arabia is supporting terrorists and has asked them to carry out operations in Iran.

A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic will not tolerate Saudi Arabia’s warmongering policies in the region.

Iranian foreign minister said the security of all countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, is important to the Islamic Republic, and called for the development of a permanent mechanism for establishing sustainable regional security.

Iraqi forces have managed to find and liberate 500 Iraqis held hostage by the ISIS terrorists in a hospital in western Mosul, north of Iraq.

Iranian foreign minister says extremism in the Middle East has its roots in the Salafism ideology, which is mainly promoted by Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia.

A senior Iranian military official says the ruling dynasty in Saudi Arabia is close to being wiped out.

An Iranian military commander says the ISIS terrorist group does not distinguish between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in its brutal crimes.

Iranian foreign minister says the Astana Talks, an initiative by Iran, Russia, and Turkey to help settle the six-year crisis in Syria, has so far been the only fruitful process to restore peace to the war-torn country.

Iranian foreign minister says the Islamic Republic’s export of food items to Qatar is part of normal trade relations between the two neighbouring countries amid the ongoing blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia and its allies on Qatar.

Qatar’s request to divert flights to Iran after the Arab rift has caused a significant rise in passenger planes using Iranian airspace, the CEO of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization said.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has ruled out what is called a regional JCPOA between Iran and the Mideast countries to resolve the current woes.

Tehran has blasted the US Secretary of State for using a misnomer to refer to the Persian Gulf, and asked him to increase his knowledge of history.

With only a few days to the end of the academic year in most countries, we have taken a glance at the academic degrees Arab rulers hold, their level of education and field of study.

Iran has dispatched several planes of food products to Qatar, which is short of food following a blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies.

The US secretary of state has called “inhumane” the sanctions imposed on Qatar by a number of Arab states and expressed concerns over the impacts of the sanctions on trade ties between his country and Qatar. This comes as Washington continues to put considerable efforts into applying illegal sanctions on Iran.

A political commentator says Washington would like to see Iraq’s Kurdistan Region separated from the country.

Qatar’s Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani, dismissed the ‘fabricated’ media reports about his meeting with the IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani.

An Iraqi commander says the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have retaken around 14,000 kilometres of their country’s soil, including nearly 360 villages in western Mosul in northern Iraq, from the ISIS terrorists.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says a referendum on the independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan region will just create more problems for the Arab country in a time when it needs peace and stability more than ever.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi strongly condemned today’s terrorist attacks in the Iraqi town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad, and the holy city of Karbala, in which dozens of “innocent people” were killed and injured.

Iranian intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, says he is certain that Saudi Arabia is supporting terrorism all around the world.