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Iran seeks to reduce tensions but will surprise aggressors in case of attack: Senior official
Sep 18, 2019 12:34Iran’s top security official says the Islamic Republic seeks to reduce tensions and avoid confrontation but will give a crushing response to any act of aggression or attempt to endanger the country’s interests.
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Japan: Iran did not conduct Saudi attacks
Sep 18, 2019 07:42Japan says it has not seen any evidence to prove a claim by the United States that Iran was involved in recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities.
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Saudi Arabia joins US naval mission in West Asia amid tensions with Iran
Sep 18, 2019 04:37Saudi Arabia has joined a US-led naval mission purportedly aimed at protecting shipping lanes in West Asian waterways as Washington and Riyadh engage in another blame game against Iran following massive Yemeni drone attacks on key Saudi oil facilities.
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Saudi prince in exile launches opposition movement, calls for constitutional monarchy
Sep 18, 2019 02:46A Saudi prince living in exile in Germany has launched an opposition movement in a bid to change the ruling regime, establish a constitutional monarchy and cease human rights abuses in the repressive country.
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Saudi Arabia 'secretly' sells Istanbul consulate where Khashoggi was murdered
Sep 18, 2019 02:05The Saudi consulate building in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul, where prominent dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered by a hit team last October, has reportedly been sold recently and the mission will soon be moving to a new location.
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The UK flouts ban, sells arms to Saudi Arabia
Sep 18, 2019 01:55The UK government believes more than £250,000 worth of radio spares was shipped to troops deployed in the war in Yemen. The original order was for almost half a million pounds worth of equipment, but officials stepped in and cancelled it. Another license for £5,000 worth of radar components has been revoked too, because officials concluded it “might be used in the conflict in Yemen.”
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Riyadh doesn’t yet know who carried oil strikes or why: Saudi energy minister
Sep 18, 2019 01:49Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman says Riyadh does not yet know who were behind the highly disruptive drone attacks on Saudi Aramco petroleum and gas processing plants at Abqaiq and Khurais in the kingdom's Eastern Province, which sent crude prices skyrocketing.
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Those disregarding Yemenis’ blood must bear consequences: Ansarullah
Sep 17, 2019 11:29Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has censured support for the Saudi-led coalition of aggressors in the wake of Yemeni retaliatory drone attacks on Aramco oil facilities in eastern Saudi Arabia, stressing that those who have no reservations at all about the bloodletting in the war-ravaged country must bear the consequences of their actions.
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Hamas official in Saudi detention transferred to hospital
Sep 17, 2019 11:18The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says one of its officials who has been in Saudi detention for more than five months has been transferred to the hospital because of health complications.
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Iran defends Yemen drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities as 'self-defense'
Sep 17, 2019 03:44Iran's president says the Yemeni army's recent drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities were merely for legitimate self-defense, and no one can expect them to remain silent when their country is destroyed.