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RFL/RE – French President Emmanuel Macron is blaming Iran for a ballistic missile launch by Yemeni rebels targeting Riyadh last weekend, and said it illustrates the need for negotiations with Tehran over its missile development. “The missile which was intercepted by Saudi Arabia launched from Yemen, which obviously is an Iranian missile, shows precisely the strength of their” program, Macron said …

RFL/RE – Iranian President Hassan Rohani has warned Saudi Arabia that threats against Iran will achieve nothing as tensions continue to rise between the regional rivals. “You know the might and place of the Islamic republic,” Rohani said at a cabinet meeting in Tehran on November 8, referring to Saudi Arabia. “Those more powerful than you [Saudi Arabia] have not been …

RFL/RE – A top Saudi official rejected accusations by the pro-Iranian Hizballah movement that his government forced Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to announce his resignation over the weekend. “Talk about Hariri being pushed to resign are lies and aim at distracting the Lebanese people,” Saudi State Minister for Gulf Affairs Thamer al-Sabhan told Al-Arabiya television on November 6. Hariri, Lebanon’s …

RFL/RE – A Saudi-led military coalition is blaming Iran for the launch of a ballistic missile by Yemeni Shi’ite rebels toward Riyadh, warning that it could be “considered as an act of war” and that it reserves its “right to respond.” A statement issued early on November 6 said that “Iran’s role and its direct command of its Huthi proxy in …

huffingtonpost -In the shadowy world of covert proxy wars, Iran is taking centre stage, both as a target and a player. A series of incidents involving Iranian ethnic and religious minorities raise the spectre of the United States and Saudi Arabia seeking to destabilize the Islamic republic. Not to sit back passively, indications are that Iran beyond its support for …

Al-Arabia – The recently released CIA bin Laden files provide new details concerning al Qaeda’s relationship with Iran. One never-before-seen 19-page document contains a senior militant’s assessment of the group’s relationship with Iran, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s Long War Journal reported. The author explains that Iran offered some “Saudi brothers” in al Qaeda “everything they needed,” including “money, arms” and “training …

RFL/RE – Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Tehran for talks with Iran’s leadership on the Syria crisis, the landmark 2015 international nuclear agreement, and energy cooperation, Iranian television announced on November 1.   Putin was scheduled to hold talks with President Hassan Rohani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as participating in a trilateral summit with Rohani …

RFL/RE – The Iranian Foreign Ministry says President Hassan Rohani turned down a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump during his trip to the United Nations General Assembly in September. The semiofficial ILNA news agency on October 29 quoted ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as saying that “an intention was expressed by the American side that was not approved by President Rohani” …

thehill -After this week, the Trump administration will not only be leading the United States down a different path with respect to the Iran nuclear deal; it will also be employing a revised strategy on the Islamic Republic as a whole. On Oct. 13, President Trump announced the results of a comprehensive policy review, resulting in, among other items, a …

Forbes – Tehran received a major blow following the blacklisting of Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization by the U.S. Treasury Department after President Donald Trump’s October 13th landmark Iran policy speech. This has senior Iranian officials extremely concerned as the regime in its entirety is desperately attempting to cope with the aftermath. There are those heard struggling to downgrade the impact …