President Donald Trump said a three-hour round of U.S.-Iran negotiations on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly “went very well” Tuesday and later told Gulf and other regional leaders there was “a lot of momentum” toward a deal, as Washington and Tehran reopened a negotiating channel for the first time since June.
President Donald Trump told world leaders Tuesday he faces a “big decision” between reaching a deal that would allow Iran to rebuild and renewed military action he said could “annihilate” the Islamic Republic, while urging other nations to join the United States in imposing “complete economic isolation” on Tehran as Arab mediators pushed for high-level talks.
U.S. forces have supported the passage of more than one billion barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz in recent months while Iran has exported none under Washington’s “ironclad blockade,” U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) chief Adm. Brad Cooper announced Saturday.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Iran “must stop sponsoring terror” and its “bloody proxy wars” as part of any nuclear deal with the U.S. — key provisions that were absent from the deal reached by President Barack Obama in 2015.
Steve Witkoff, the senior adviser and assistant to President Donald Trump who is helping lead major peace negotiations worldwide, told Breitbart News exclusively last week at the White House that he believes there is “big energy” for what he expects will be a likely expansion of the Abraham Accords in a matter of months not years.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to “unite efforts” against “threats posed by the Iranian regime” on Tuesday in his speech at the 41st GCC Summit in the Saudi city of Al-Ula.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, at the start of two emergency summits in the holy city of Mecca on Thursday, intensified rhetoric against its regional foe Iran, urging Arab leaders to combat Tehran’s “criminal actions” in the Middle East and beyond.
Saudi Arabia is reportedly expected to convene an emergency summit in the holy city of Mecca on Thursday aimed at discussing recent “aggressions and their consequences” with top Gulf Arab leaders amid escalating military tensions between Iran and the United States.
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The Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been lobbying American lawmakers to change the bipartisan law that allows the families of 9/11 victims and survivors of the tragedy to sue the Gulf Arab country in U.S. courts for any role it may have played in the 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on American soil.
Saudi Arabia and its allies have reportedly threatened to retaliate against the United States over a law that allows the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Gulf Arab kingdom in U.S. court for any role it may have played in the 2001 attacks.
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Eight major maritime chokepoints, through which oil tankers transit, exist globally. Seventeen million barrels of oil daily pass through one of them — the Strait of Hormuz.
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members and the United States have reached an agreement to prevent the shipment of Iranian weapons to Yemen, according to Abdullatif al-Zayani, the alliance’s secretary general.
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Even though the Gulf States refuse to recognize the fact that Israel exists as a sovereign state, they are reaching out for help acquiring defensive technology, largely against Iran.
The oil-rich Gulf states are growing sensitive to the criticism that they aren’t taking in any Syrian refugees, and they’re responding by telling the Western world to accept more of them.
As hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees languish in camps or risk their lives to reach Europe, questions are being asked about why wealthy Gulf states have accepted so few. By the end of August, more than four million Syrians
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Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Qatar late Sunday for talks with the Gulf Cooperation Council–a Sunni Arab bloc consisting of 6 gulf states–that largely focused on the Iran nuclear deal struck between world powers and the regime in Tehran last month.
Instead of participating in a Camp David summit of Gulf leaders – which was organized by U.S. President Barack Obama to garner support from Gulf Arab leaders – the King of Bahrain decided to attend the Royal Windsor Horse Show, where he met on Friday with Queen Elizabeth II and other British royalty.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Charging toward an Iran nuclear agreement, President Barack Obama is assuring Arab allies that they are safe from the threat of an empowered Tehran as he seeks to shore up some of America’s most critical security partnerships.
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