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Tehran Saudi Embassy Attackers Are in Prison: Minister

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Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati reaffirmed the immunity of diplomatic missions in Iran, and announced that the culprits behind a recent attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran have been imprisoned.
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Iran Sets No Preconditions for Talks with Saudi Arabia: Cleric

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Ayatollah Mohsen Qomi, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, believes that Saudi Arabia has made a lot of mistakes in recent years, for which it intends to blame Iran, considering the country its enemy. However, since Iran is aware of this plan and is not at all interested in fanning the flames of tension with the Arab state, it will not set any preconditions for any possible talks with Riyadh, he stated.
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Culture Minister: Major Hajj Pilgrimage if Saudi Cooperates

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Ali Jannati, the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, said his Ministry and the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization are trying to arrange this year's Hajj pilgrimage, if Saudis cooperate.
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Iran FM slams Riyadh’s ‘destructive’ moves at OIC

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Iran has slammed Saudi Arabia’s "destructive" move to include statements against the Islamic Republic and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement in the draft declaration of the 13th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
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Iran’s Oil Market Counter-Attack against Saudi Arabia

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Iran’s oil production had sharply decreased in recent years, due to the sanctions imposed on the country for years, and Tehran is now trying...
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Rezaei: Saudi Arabia should be Fearful of Iranian Silence

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The Secretary of the Expediency Council, referring to provocations and aggressive acts committed by the Saudis in recent years, warns that Iran’s self-restraint will not last forever.
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Iranian Spokesman: Riyadh is playing a blame game, ignores realities

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Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday that Saudi Arabia can not ignore the realities on the ground by playing a blame game and accusing Iran.
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Saudi Arabia must guarantee safety of Iranian pilgrims: Official

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The head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization says Riyadh must guarantee the safety of Iranian pilgrims as a condition for their future dispatch to Saudi Arabia following the death of thousands of people in the deadly 2015 crush during the Hajj rituals in Mina.
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Iran Protests at Riyadh’s Refusal to Issue Visa for Iranian Diplomats

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Director-General for Political and International Security Affairs at the Iranian Foreign Ministry Hamid Baeidinejad said the country has objected Saudi Arabia’s “discriminatory” move to prevent an Iranian delegation from visiting the Arab country to attend an OIC meeting.
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Were those terrorists killed in Iraq and Syria carrying Saudi diplomatic passports?

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari, in a response to Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al Jubeir’s claim that Iran has killed many Saudi diplomats, said that the allegations made by Mr. Jubeir since he took office cannot be taken as anything more than a joke.
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Jaberi Ansari: Switzerland Officially Hosts Iran and Saudi Arabia’s Interests Sections

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Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, announced that Switzerland had officially taken over the Saudi Arabian and Iranian interests sections in Tehran and Riyadh respectively, at the request of both countries.
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Zarif: Iran Ready to Work with “Saudi Brothers”

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced the country’s readiness to cooperate with Saudi Arabia on the settlement of the regional problems, saying that Tehran and Riyadh cannot ignore each other in the region.
Energy

Iran ready to discuss oil with Saudis

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Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh said on Tuesday that Iran is ready to negotiate with Saudi Arabia over the current conditions in international oil markets.
Europe

Iran wants Saudi to drop hostile policies: Zarif

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The Iranian foreign minister says Saudi Arabia must drop its hostile policies against the Islamic Republic.
Asia

Iranian Clubs Likely to Withdraw from AFC Champions League

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Iran Football Federation Vice President Mehdi Taj said the Iranian teams will withdraw from AFC Champions League if the confederation change the venues of Iran and Saudi Arabian teams matches.
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Iran, Saudi Arabia must compromise, resolve Mideast tensions: UN

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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Iran and Saudi Arabia should compromise and interact responsibly vis-à-vis the tensions in the Middle East.
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Iran: Saudi wants to send ‘terrorists’ to Syria talks

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Iran says it strongly opposes Saudi Arabia’s efforts to send "terrorists in a new mask" to talks between the Syrian government and the opposition.
Europe

Saudi execution of Nimr was big mistake: President Rouhani

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr earlier this month was a big mistake.
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Tehran, Riyadh should work to reduce tensions: Araqchi

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A senior Iranian official has called on Saudi Arabia to help reduce tensions, saying Tehran is open to any initiative for the sake of the regional security.
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Larijani: Prince Bandar told me “we made mistake in Afghanistan and Iraq”

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Parliament Speaker, Mr. Ali Larijani said Saudi rulers made a strategic mistake adding that their understanding of problems faced by Islamic World is wrong.
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Enemy role possible in Saudi embassy attack: Iran

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Iran’s Judiciary spokesman says the country’s enemies may have been involved in orchestrating an attack carried out against the Saudi Arabian embassy in the capital, Tehran, earlier in the month.
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Saudis and Zionists try to Undermine Nuclear Agreement

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Hussein Sheikholeslam, advisor to Iranian Parliament Speaker warned against joint plot by Saudis and Israelis to prevent implementation of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) saying that we should closely watch implementation of this document so that US not interpret it on its own terms.
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Iran to Announce Results of Probe into Attacks on Saudi Missions: Deputy FM

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Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said the country plans to announce the results of its investigation into attacks on the Saudi embassy in Tehran and the Saudi consulate in Mashahd in the near future.
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Iran rejects OIC statement as ‘unacceptable’

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Iran has dismissed as “unacceptable” the recent statement by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), saying it runs counter to principles of the UN Charter, the OIC Charter and international law.
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Tehran, Riyadh can accommodate each other: Zarif

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic does not seek any tensions with Saudi Arabia, and that the two Muslim countries can coexist peacefully.
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