Saudi Arabia

25

Nov

Bahrain, Brett McGurk, Eyal Hulata, Manama dialogue, Middle East, National Security Council, Pooya Mirzaei, Regional Security Summit, Saudi Arabia, Security, the United States, Zionist regime

Manama dialogue: Gathering for security or insecurity?

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - In recent days, Bahrain has hosted a meeting in Manama called the Regional Security Summit. Although Bahrain was the nominal host of the Manama dialogue, the meeting could be considered to be hosted by Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, given Riyadh's godfather's ruling on Manama. The record of these countries, both domestically against their citizens and in the region against free nations like Yemen, shows that they are themselves part of the crisis and the cause of insecurity in the region, and therefore hosting Manama dialogue called the Regional Security Summit is a clear contradiction. Official…

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13

Sep

9/11, George Washington University, Hossein Askari, Saudi Arabia, Tony Blair

Emeritus Professor at George Washington University confirms Tony Blair’s view of Riyadh

PEJOURNAL - The former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said on the anniversary of 9/11 that Saudi Arabia with huge oil wealth is propagating a fundamental, old-fashioned, and quite a backward view of Islam.  Blair described the 9/11 terrorist attacks as an event that changed the world. He said that the attacks created big anxiety in the world because they did not know whether further attacks were on the way. Meanwhile, he added that Americans decided to leave Afghanistan because they realized that the enemy they were fighting there was not going to give up even after 20 years. He said…

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25

Aug

Saudi Arabia, strategic partner, the United States

Saudi Arabia is never a strategic partner of the United States

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - Many years have passed since the Nixon-Kissinger doctrine of dividing responsibilities in the field of foreign policy and giving responsibility to regional powers. The same doctrine that introduced the Shah of Iran as the regional gendarmerie as a military arm and Saudi Arabia as its economic arm and ultimately complemented the role of the Iranian gendarmerie in the Middle East. In the meantime, the United States has once again chosen a policy of helping Saudi Arabia dominate the region and lead the Arab world, as well as supporting the kingdom in regional conflicts, after regional…

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23

Mar

Abbas Salimi Namin, Afghanistan, Iran, Iranian Islamic Revolution, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic revolution, Middle East, Military, Pooya Mirzaei, Saudi Arabia, Security, Terrorism, the United States, Yemen

Iranian Islamic Revolution’s Dialogue

Interviewer: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - In the time that Iran is going to start a new century based on its calendar, and also Iranian Islamic Revolution is in its fifth decade of victory, we aimed to analyse the past, present, and the future of Iranian Islamic Revolution through dialogue with contemporary historians, thinkers, philosophers and politicians. In this series, our first interview is with Doctor Abbas Salimi Namin, a contemporary Iranian Historian and Intellectual. Below you can find the complete text of dialogue with Dr. Salimi Namin: First question that I have is, as a thinker who studies especially in…

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22

Mar

Grand Ayatullah Khamenei, Saudi Arabia, The US, war, Yemen

The US has trapped Saudi Arabia in the quagmire of the Yemeni War

PEJOURNAL - On the first day of the Persian New Year 1400 AH, which has been named the year of “Production: Support and Removing Barriers,” Grand Ayatullah Khamenei - the Leader of the Islamic Revolution - delivered his annual speech in a live broadcast this evening. Grand Ayatullah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said that after the passage of 6 years, Saudi Arabia has not yet been able to force the Yemenis to surrender. He said that the US has trapped the Saudis in the quagmire of the Yemeni War. Addressing the Iranian nation in his New Year…

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17

Feb

Ansarullah, Resistance Front, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Yemen's Houthi movement

The Yemeni resistance and the defeat of Saudi ignorant policies

PEJOURNAL - Saudi Arabia's regional policy has been one of the main reasons for the escalation of tensions in West and Southwest Asia for at least the past decade. These policies, which intensified after the death of King Abdullah, with King Salman ascending the throne in January 2015 and aligning with the Emirati Mohammed bin Zayed, although they continue to this day, do not meet any of the pre-determined goals. The main goal of these policies, which from the beginning was based on the three pillars of "primitiveness", "ignorance" and "oil dollars", was to achieve the US gendarmerie position in…

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31

Dec

CSIS, Iran, Israel, Nuclear Program, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapon, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, West Asia

West Asia on the path to nuclear proliferation

PEJOURNAL - A recent report from CSIS on the think tank's "nuclear program" lists the trends that lead to the development of nuclear weapons, claiming that US misguided policies have encouraged Turkey and Saudi Arabia in West Asia to pursue nuclear weapons technology. The Center for Strategic and International Studies ( CSIS ) was established in 1962 with a focus on areas related to US national security. The think tank's board of trustees is currently headed by Thomas Pritzker, a major American financier and hotelier. John Hammer, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1993 to 1997, also manages…

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26

Dec

Al-Qaeda, global security, International Terrorism, Iran, ISIS, Middle East, OPEC, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism

How can terrorism in the Middle East affect global security?

PEJOURNAL - Contemporary security issues in Middle East, mostly arose from terrorism and its effects on this region, is going to become a global security dilemma, mostly through terrorists that are going back to their home countries under the refugees cover. this point of view together with the possible effects of terrorism on global energy security has been discussed here. Concept of Terrorism Terrorism is an ambiguous concept that has been argued to mean different things. However, the arguments of different scholars may help form a basis to describe the concept of terrorism. Following the events of the September 11,…

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20

Dec

Arab-Hebrew, Iran, Israel, normalization, railway, Saudi Arabia, Tel Aviv, UAE

Arab-Hebrew railway project

PEJOURNAL - The Peace Railway is a deliberate plan to normalize Arab-Hebrew relations by opening up economic channels and extending them to political relations that seek to marginalize the Palestinian cause. To this day, the Arab-Hebrew Strategic Alliance has been a dream come true for the region, but it seems that today, after sowing the seeds of relations with Arab countries, the Zionist regime is on the verge of celebrating unity. It is economically, security-wise, and strategically aligned with the Arabs, and has significantly advanced in the area of ​​improving political relations. The Zionist regime is gradually unveiling its most…

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06

Dec

Bin Salman, Iran, Joe Biden, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, TRUMP, USA, Washington

Six Challenges of Bin Salman in the Biden Period

BY: Ruhollah Qasemian PEJOURNAL - With Biden coming and changing US foreign policy in the Middle East, we seem to be witnessing serious challenges and concerns for the throne of the young Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia ( Bin Salman ), the least likely of which is the formulation of US Middle East policy in Washington and the White House not in Riyadh and the court of King Salman. After the outcome of the US presidential election and Biden's decisive victory in the field of US foreign policy in the Middle East, two issues are eye-popping. The first is the…

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