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Saudi Arabia-US relations going to pieces

14 May 2022

The appointment of Michael Ratney as new US ambassador to Saudi Arabia has been read by Riyadh as proof of Washington’s disinterest in the Saudi monarchy. Mr. Ratney is a civilian, when in fact the Quincy Pact - concluded in 1945 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the founder of the Saudi (...)

Saudi-Iranian negotiations moving forward

28 April 2022

The above photograph was released by the Iranian government:
It shows Khalil al-Hmaydane (head of Saudi intelligence) and Saïd Irouani (deputy head of international affairs at the Iranian National Security Council) surrounding Iraqi Prime Minister Moustafa al-Kazimi.
A meeting of consultations (...)

Middle East

Fanaticisms at the service of the United States

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 25 January 2022

The United States could reorganize the entire Middle East by reconciling Sunnis and Shiites, Saudi Arabia and Iran. They would then impose another cleavage: for or against political Islam. This new divide would allow them to revive jihadism in a much broader (...)

Imminent restoration of Iranian-Saudi relations

18 January 2022

Jalil Rahimi Jahanabadi, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of the Iranian parliament, said in a tweet on 15 January 2022:
"#Important_Relations between #Iran and #Saudi Arabia are being revived and #Embassies are preparing to reopen. This will have an important (...)

France hands Lebanese minister’s head to heir of Saudi throne

5 December 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Riyadh on 4 December carrying in his pocket the resignation of Lebanese Information Minister George Cordahi (photo) which he offered to Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (“MBS”).
George Cordahi pursued a career as a journalist, then as an anchor on (...)

Rapprochement between USA and Saudi Arabia

22 October 2021

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman.
The talks mostly focused on the possibility of warming relations between their two countries if Riyadh would agree to normalize its diplomatic relations with (...)

Saudi Arabia inks military cooperation agreement with Russia

2 September 2021

After purchasing a $ 3 billion package of arms manufacturing rights from Russia in 2017 and subsequently backing out of a deal to acquire S-400 anti-missile systems, on 24 August 2021, Saudi Arabia signed an agreement of military cooperation with the Deputy Minister of Defense, General (...)

Saudi Arabia restores relations with Qatar

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) | 11 January 2021

Pursuant to the outcomes of the forty-first Summit of the Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) – the “Sultan Qaboos and Sheikh Sabah Summit” – held on 21 Jumada I A.H. 1442, corresponding to 5 January 2021, in Ula governorate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which stressed the (...)

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen in Saudi Arabia

23 November 2020

According to the Israeli press, on 22 November 2020 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen travelled Neom, in Saudi Arabia, to meet with Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman ("MBS").
Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have official diplomatic (...)

Trump adapts US energy strategy

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 14 April 2020

While most people are absorbed by the time-distribution measures of the epidemic, the Saudis are questioning the power of their American protector. A showdown between Riyadh and Washington, which was already disrupting the world economy before the spread of Covid-19. President Trump considered (...)

Saudi gereontocracy tested by Covid-19

10 April 2020

0n 23 March 2020, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for a worldwide ceasefire to fight Covid-19.
In Yemen, the Houthis, who had just defeated Saudi Arabia in the North of the country, immediately called on the various armed forces on the ground to respect a truce.
It (...)

White House planning "oil alliance" with Saudi Arabia

25 March 2020

As Washington takes stock of the Saudi defeat in Yemen and rumors in Riyadh of a possible coup d’etat are rife, Victoria Coates has been nominated US Special Envoy for Energy. She is reported to have arrived in Riyadh where she will reside.
Ms. Coates is suspected of having penned the column (...)

First NATO-ME War Overturns Regional Order

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 24 March 2020

While Europeans and Arabs are being absorbed by the coronavirus, Anglo-Saxons are changing the world order. Under US command, the United Kingdom took control of the Red Sea entrance; the United Arab Emirates turned on Saudi Arabia and inflicted a bitter defeat on South Yemen, while the Houthis (...)

Saudi Arabia makes oil price drop to $ 31 per barrel

10 March 2020

The price of crude per barrel plunged 20% on the European markets and 30% on the Asian markets following the quarterly OPEC meeting in Vienna, reaching it’s lowest level in eleven years.
Dismissing proposals to slightly cut its oil production during the current global economic downturn sparked (...)

Motive behind Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination

4 March 2020

Iranian journalist Saeed Kamali Dehghan (photo) working for The Guardian has confirmed that Jamal Khashoggi was his informant. According to him, the latter’s revelations to him constituted the motive for the assassination of the Washington Post journalist (and member of the Muslim Brotherhood), (...)

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