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It’s Time for the US and Saudi Arabia to Break Up

Much has changed in a few years. The Saudi crown prince is no longer categorized as a widely-hailed reformer of the Middle East, but as a thick-headed ...

America and the New Geopolitics After Coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has forced almost every person on the planet to narrow their focus on how to get by day to day. When the dust finally clears ...

The Coronavirus & Saudi Arabia

In late February, Saudi Arabia abruptly suspended all visas for umrah, the year-round pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city in Islam. Umrah is less im ...

US-Saudi Relations

On Valentine’s Day 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud on an American cruiser, the USS Quincy, in the Suez C ...

Malvinas the Name Proved by History

“My regards and high respect to the praiseworthy nations of Britain and Argentina and to the noble and hard-working people living in these islands” ...

Condemn Trump’s threat to Iran’s cultural heritage

Academic researchers of Iranian history, archaeology, art and culture, based in national museums and universities across the world, react in horror to ...

Interview with Prof. Ashk Peter Dahlén

Ashk Dahlén was born in Tehran in 1972 and has lived most of his life in Sweden. He is Associate Professor in Iranian Languages at Uppsala University ...

Iran shoots down US military drone

IRGC: US Stealth Drone Downed after Violating Iran's Airspace / A Global Hawk has a unit cost of roughly $123 million ...

The Saudi Regime’s Other Victims

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi has focused attention on Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses. We need to remember all of the thousands in prison. ...

Charities call for US to halt support for Saudis in Yemen

Five international charities on Monday urged the United States to halt all military support for a Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels, ...

Why is the Trump administration cleaning up Saudi Arabia’s mess?

SECRETARY OF STATE Mike Pompeo was said to be pressing in Riyadh on Tuesday for a “thorough, transparent and timely investigation” of the disappearanc ...

Khashoggis Blood Is On Donald Trump’s Hands

In July, President Donald Trump hosted A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, the outlet which is perhaps the biggest target of the preside ...

Victims of Saudi Arabia’s Increasing Repression

In November 2018, Saudi Arabia will undergo its third review under the United Nations’ (UN) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) framework. Prior to the re ...

Khashoggi’s Disappearance Is a Slap in the Face to the United States

Saudi Arabia is one of the United States’ most important allies in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia is also a tyrannical monarchy that punishes dissent, ...

The Saudi Monarchy May Have Killed a Free Man

Despite rumors of impending religious liberalization, so far the KSA sits atop the world, alongside North Korea, as a leading persecutor. Even Iran al ...