s Saudi foreign minister says backs Trump's stance on Iran 10/24/2017 3:48:35 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Saudi Arabias Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir speaks at a briefing with reporters at the Saudi Embassy in London, Britain September 5, 2017 LONDON (Reuters)OCT. 24, 2017-- Saudi Arabia supports U.S. President Donald Trump’s concerns about Iran, following his decision not to certify that Tehran is complying with a nuclear accord, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Tuesday. Al-Jubeir was speaking at a conference in London.

What are the policy options for dealing with Iranian regime? F. Mahmoudi, Special to Al Arabiya English Monday, 9 October 2017 Text size  A   A   A On browsing social media accounts of Iranian activists — on Feacebook, Twitter, Telegram and Instagram — one can feel the pulse of the Iranian society, where a sense of social unease and protest is evidently brewing. Even regime officials are writing in the social media about the “huge challenges” they are facing from protesting social classes, such as laborers who have not recieved their salaries and farmers who await payment for their produce. There are also investors and depositors whose money has been blocked by state institutions. University students are facing a hard time finding jobs and there is also a dramatic increase in the number of unemployed and homeless. On the other hand, many families who lost their children in the 1988 massacre in prisons still do not know the burial sites of...

Iran open to talks over its ballistic missile programme: sources Irans reported approach came after Trump called the nuclear accord an embarrassment and the worst deal ever negotiated . ANKARA/LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oct. 6, 2017-  Iran has signalled to six world powers that it is open to talks about its ballistic missile arsenal, seeking to reduce tension over the disputed programme, Iranian and Western officials familiar with the overtures told Reuters.   Tehran has repeatedly vowed to continue building up what it calls defensive missile capability in defiance of Western criticism, with Washington saying the Islamic Republic’s stance violates its 2015 nuclear deal with the powers. But the sources said that given U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to ditch the deal reached under his predecessor Barack Obama, Tehran had approached the powers recently about possible talks on some “dimensions” of its missile programme. “During their meeting on ...