TEHRAN: An extra ordinary session of the Iranian cabinet decided to stop and ban all kinds of imports from Saudi Arabia through all entry points, including free trade zones and special economic zones.President Hasan Rouhani chaired the extra ordinary session of the cabinet which took the ...

RIYADH: Saudi deputy crown prince and Defence Minister Prince Mohammad Bin Salman said, war with Iran would be a catastrophe and Saudi Arabia would not like to do that. He was quoted by correspondent of Reuters.He also criticised the United States of America at this occasion and said that USA ...

BAGHDAD: Saudi Arabia’s newly opened embassy in Baghdad has reportedly been targeted by a rocket attack following the execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The RT’s Ruptly video agency released footage about the incident, showing helicopters circling the building in the Iraqi capital ...

WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton joined in criticism of Saturday's execution of 47 in Saudi Arabia, among them prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr. "I don't think it was a smart decision for them to make," Clinton, the former secretary of state, said Sunday in New Hampshire. Nimr's death was met with ...

TEHRAN: The Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said the Al Saud ruling family would be “wiped from the pages of history,” Yemen’s Houthi group described Nimr as a ‘holy warrior’ and Lebanese militia Hezbollah said Riyadh had made ‘a grave mistake’. Saudi Arabia executed 47 ...

TEHRAN:  Protesters in Iran, angered by the execution by Saudi Arabia of a prominent Shiite cleric, broke into the Saudi embassy in Tehran early Sunday, setting fires and throwing papers from the roof. The country's top police official, Gen. Hossein Sajedinia, rushed to the scene and police ...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has executed 47 "terrorists", according to the interior ministry, including Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr and al-Qaeda-affiliated Faris al-Zahrani. In a press statement read out on state TV on Saturday, the ministry listed the names of all those it said were already convicted on ...