The Vaghaye Ettefaghieh newspaper has, in an article, elaborated on Saudi Arabia’s stance on an upcoming trip to Riyadh by US President Donald Trump. Here is full text of the Farsi piece:
A secret letter signed by the Saudi king shows the Arab country plans to spend as much as $68 million to welcome US President Donald Trump in his first foreign trip.
US President Donald Trump complained on Thursday that US ally Saudi Arabia does not treat the United States fairly and Washington is losing a “tremendous amount of money” defending the kingdom.
The United States’ Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley will try to use the US rotating presidency of the UNSC and turn the spotlight of a Thursday meeting from Israel to Iran, according to media reports.
US President Donald Trump called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to congratulate him on winning a much-disputed referendum that will cement his autocratic rule over the country.
Hillary Clinton has described US President Trump as hypocritical, arguing that while he uses pictures of children killed in gas attacks to justify airstrikes in Syria, he at the same time closes the country’s door on Syrian refugees.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has expressed his gratitude to US President Trump for the US military attack on a Syrian airfield, and described it a courageous decision.
US columnist Andrew Bowen has reportedly asked for the removal of his articles in support for Hillary Clinton as he is going to apply for a job in Trump’s State Department.
A senior Iranian official described a recent US airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, which killed up to 200 civilians, as a war crime, saying it has become common practice for the US army to murder innocent people under the pretext of counterterrorism.
Iranian Foreign Ministry said the country has imposed sanctions on 15 American companies over their support for terrorist activities and crimes committed by the Israeli regime.
The United States has imposed sanctions on 30 foreign companies or individuals for alleged transfer of‘sensitive technology’to Iran for its missile program, the State Department said on Friday.
A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked US President Trump’s revised travel ban just hours before it was due to go into effect, marking another stinging blow to the administration.
The revised version of Trump’s travel ban blocks visitors from six countries of Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Iran, and Sudan, but it exempts Iraq, the homeland of several renowned terrorists and extremists who are now allowed to apply for the US visa!
An Iranian MP says Trump’s campaign remarks have put the US administration under heavy pressure of public opinion to scrap the nuclear deal with Iran, but he has no choice but to pursue its implementation.
Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives, called US President Donald Trump a liar for accusing former President Barack Obama of tapping the phones in Trump Tower.
The US state department deleted a congratulatory message for an Oscar win by prominent Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi who had criticized President Donald Trump’s travel ban as “inhumane”.
Jafar Panahi, the renowned Iranian filmmaker and a member of the Academy, says Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman” deserves to be awarded an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film regardless of who calls the shots in the US political arena.
The resignation of Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, has laid bare a fierce clash between the centres of power and factions in the White House and the Republican Party.
