#ksa
For the last 18 months or so, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been engaging in a process of rapprochement. The two signed a Beijing-brokered roadmap to de-escalation in early 2023. The Kingdom reopened its embassy in #Tehran in autumn 2023. Since then, a series of symbolic steps, including state visits and the opening of consular services, have taken place. Not that you'd know from reading the prestige press in the UK and US. The #FT, #Bloomberg, the #WSJ, the #WaPo and the #NYT hardly report on this story. So, yesterday, Saudi Arabia and Iran conducted joint naval exercises in the Gulf of Oman. Given the situation in the Middle East, this would seem important. Who's reporting on it? Let's look at #Google News.
#Iran #KSA #PersianGulf #Media #Censorship #Politics #China #WestAaia
Saudi-owned TV channel working directly with the Israeli Occupation Forces
According to a report by Kan, the entity's national broadcaster, the Israeli army shares exclusive breaking news with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya channel in exchange for "favourable coverage" of the Zionist entity.
During the genocide in Gaza, the collaboration between the Israeli army and Al-Arabiya was particularly evident in the information presented, with captured Israelis referred to as "hostages" rather than "captives" and terms such as "occupation" and "Zionist entity" avoided when describing Israeli forces. It also refrained from calling those killed in Gaza as martyrs.
This language shift, influenced by Israeli military cooperation, is an attempt to shape a more favourable image of the Zionist entity to the Arabic-speaking audience.
#Israeli Jets Bomb Sites in #Yemen (removed the rest of the BS title of NYT).
The strike was in retaliation for a drone attack launched from Yemen a day earlier, which evaded Israel’s defenses and hit a building in Tel Aviv, killing one person.
I guess Yemen is now officially on the list of the countries Israel has bombed to defend it's ongoing genocide.
Who wants to bet #US, #UK #KSA and #UAE will follow?
(Behind paywall with disgusting whitewash of Israeli criminal actions)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/world/middleeast/israel-houthis-yemen.html
I'm really shocked 😂
Guess who the general Arab public blaming for this? The media, Arab channels and Saudi backed satellite TV and sites are full of angry people attacking Iran for taking the world's attention away from Gaza.
The same people who are feeding israel, protecting israel and done nothing to help people in Gaza.
Well screw IRI, but at least they are standing up against the genocidal regime of Israel.
#KSA #Gaza #Genocide #Iran #Media #Politics #Hypocrisy #SilentIsCompliance
PS. Forgot the attachment
The Israel-UAE land corridor depends on naval traffic sailing through the Persian Gulf
Israel has been using this route, which runs from the UAE through Saudi Arabia and Jordan to Israel, as a way to circumvent the Red Sea blockade in its trade with the Asian continent.
If Iran systematically cuts off Israeli-linked shipping originating in Emirati ports, Israel will effectively be shut off from any trade with Asia and would have to import everything through its Mediterranean Sea ports of Haifa & Ashdod.
If Iran or Hezbollah then decides to strike these two ports, Israel will be completely cut off from the global trade network. This would have massive repercussions on its economy, which is heavily dependent on foreign trade.
#Iran sStraitOfHormoz #PersianGulf #Israel #UAE #KSA #Iran #Blockade #Polotics
Abu Ali Al-Askari, spokesman of the Iraqi #Kataeb #Hezbollah brigade:
'We in the Islamic Resistance of Iraq are ready to equip 12.000 Islamic Resistance fighters in #Jordan with light and medium weapons, anti-tank launchers, missiles, millions of bullets, and tons of explosives, in order to cut off the land routes leading to #Israel.'
Jordan is already at the edge of an explosion because of their support of Israeli Genocide and helping KSA & UAE to provide 100s of truck loads of food and Asian imports to bypass Yemeni blockade.
The recent Israeli attack against Iranian consulate in Damascus will give an excuse for the Iraqi resistance to stepup their involvement in the conflict with devastating effects for Jordan.
Saudi Arabia says it is committed to normalizing ties with Israel and will resume talks after the end of the Gaza war.
These monsters have 0 moral grounds and will joyfully shake the blood soaked hands of Netanyahu rather than standing up against them.
#Israel #SaudiArabia #MbS #Netanyahu #Politics #Diplomacy #KSA #Gaza
Saudi Arabia's export group, the Gulf Research Center, has just developed, together with a senior French official, an exit plan for the Gaza crisis, several sources said.
The confidential document published by the newspaper Le Monde mentions the exfiltration of the "military and security" leaders of Hamas to #Algeria.
The French newspaper is probably referring to Mohammed Deif, commander of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamist movement Hamas, and possibly also Yahya Sinwar, leader of #Hamas in #Gaza.
Supposedly, the choice of #Algiers is due to the good relations it maintains with #Iran and #Qatar and its "security capacity" to control the possible "activities" of these leaders.
#Saudi Sheikh Ibrahim al-Muhamid criticizes the Palestinian resistance groups: What is happening in #Gaza is jihad for the sake of Satan, and it's fitna, not legitimate fighting!
That is the best proof that #KSA and their bastard children, #Taliban. #AlQaeda and #ISIS are friends of #Israel and never fight against them.
Video in Arabic available on telegram
Saudi Arabia is carrying out airstrikes against Ansar Allah in the border region of Saada in Yemen.
I guess the Ultimatum from #Netanyahu is being answered.
Saudi authorities have executed three young men from the Shia-populated Qatif region over charges of involvement in sabotage activities, which critics say are part of a crackdown to silence political dissent.
The Saudi Ministry of Interior alleged in a statement on Monday that the death sentences were carried out against Hassan bin Issa Al Muhanna, Haider bin Hassan Muwais and Muhammad bin Ibrahim Muwais.
The ministry claimed that the Saudi nationals “had joined a foreign-based network in order to carry out acts of terror against the kingdom. They were found guilty of having received training in the use of firearms and making bombs, smuggling men wanted on security charges out of the country, bringing in ammunition and storing them for the purpose of disturbing internal security.”
#SaudiArabia #Politics #DeathPenalty #Shia #KSA #HumanRights
This is the greatest news of our time!
Saudi delegate together with Omani team will arrive in Sana to discuss the final terms of a
- 1 year ceasefire starting immediately
- Work in cooperation with Omani delegates to set up the transition toward the permanent ceasefire and a peace deal by "Eid-Al-Fitr, the end of holy month of Ramadan later this month.
- Release of all POWs on both sides
- Immediate end of KSA/UAE imposed blockade, backed by the US and UK navies (no words from them to accept this yet).
This is one of the happiest days of my life, a hope for peace and an end to one of the bloodiest war in modern time, with millions of people suffering an artificial famine and health emergency in one of the poorest countries on earth. A country that not many people seems to care about is finally seeing the opening of a path to peace.
#Peace #Yemen #ForgottenWar #KSA #SAudiArabia #China #Oman #Iran #US #UK #Politics #Ceasefire
Newspaper in Iran the day after the news about Iran and KSA normalizing relations! Showing Netanyahu shooting himself in the head with the larg print saying "the big loser"
"Iran #ksa #israel #netanyahoo
BBCs choice of the image for covering the later agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia says a lot about their long and well tested propaganda behavior!
Every other media (including those in Israel) used the image of the Iran, KSA and China's foreign ministers holding hands or sitting behind a table, but BBC decided to chose the typical "angry Iranian" image on their tweet and web site instead!