TEHRAN (IQNA) – Eight months into the year 2017, the amount of Saudi airstrikes on Yemen has already exceeded the total number of airstrikes the kingdom launched on its war-torn neighbor in the last year.
News ID: 3463656 Publish Date : 2017/08/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Passports at the Ministry of Interior said 31 foreign nationals entering the kingdom for Hajj have died so far.
News ID: 3463653 Publish Date : 2017/08/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Ten Nobel laureates from across the world called on Saudi Arabia to hold off on the execution of 14 Shia citizens convicted of protest-related charges.
News ID: 3463627 Publish Date : 2017/08/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned that 14 Shia Saudi citizens are at imminent risk of execution after Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court upheld their death sentences in mid-July following an “unfair trial” over protest-related charges.
News ID: 3463608 Publish Date : 2017/08/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Saudi-led restrictions on Yemen’s airspace and the closure of its main airport in Sana’a have led to the deaths of over 10,000 people in the impoverished Arab nation over the past year, a rights group said.
News ID: 3463604 Publish Date : 2017/08/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A forum was held in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur to discuss the role of Saudi Arabia, the Zionist regime and the US, in spreading extremism worldwide.
News ID: 3463562 Publish Date : 2017/08/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Qatar accused Saudi Arabia of politicizing Hajj, claiming Riyadh has imposed restrictions on Qatari nationals planning to travel to Mecca for the annual Muslim pilgrimage.
News ID: 3463505 Publish Date : 2017/07/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Yemeni army troops, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, managed to seize several strategic Saudi military bases and outposts in the Arab kingdom’s southwestern Jizan region, inflicting casualties on Saudi forces.
News ID: 3463487 Publish Date : 2017/07/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations warned that the catastrophic situation in Yemen is turning into a combination of the world’s worst humanitarian crises amid almost daily Saudi bombardment of the impoverished Arab nation.
News ID: 3463479 Publish Date : 2017/07/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Amid the ongoing impasse in the Persian Gulf region, Saudi Arabia said it will allow access to Qatari pilgrims for Hajj (annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca) aboard all flights other than Qatar Airways, country’s national carrier.
News ID: 3463449 Publish Date : 2017/07/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Charity organizations called on the UN to blacklist the Saudi-led coalition over serious violations of children’s rights in Yemen as statistics reveal massive child fatalities caused by the ongoing war against the impoverished nation.
News ID: 3463416 Publish Date : 2017/07/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia, which is leading an atrocious military campaign against Yemen, prevented a United Nations charter flight carrying aid agency staff from travelling to its impoverished and crisis-stricken southern neighbor, where millions of people are in need of humanitarian or protection assistance.
News ID: 3463405 Publish Date : 2017/07/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the cholera outbreak in Yemen could spread during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in September.
News ID: 3463362 Publish Date : 2017/07/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia is using the death penalty as a means to silence Shia dissent, Amnesty International said.
News ID: 3463345 Publish Date : 2017/07/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said the country attaches great importance to the safety of its Hajj pilgrims.
News ID: 3463327 Publish Date : 2017/07/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi security forces said they have foiled a suicide attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, cornering the alleged potential attacker before he blew himself up, the Interior Ministry said.
News ID: 3463194 Publish Date : 2017/06/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia plans to execute 14 Shia civilians following a "grossly unfair trial" over political protests, international rights groups said.
News ID: 3463045 Publish Date : 2017/06/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – United Nations experts slammed the Riyadh regime over razing an old part of a Shia Muslim-majority town in eastern Saudi Arabia, saying the move has erased cultural heritage and violated human rights.
News ID: 3462955 Publish Date : 2017/05/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A London-based human rights group said five civilians were among the victims of a recent US raid on Yemen, challenging the American version of the attack that says only militants were slain.
News ID: 3462937 Publish Date : 2017/05/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the United States’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, responded to US President Trump’s speech broadcast from Saudi Arabia ostensibly seeking to reset relations with the Muslim world.
News ID: 3462902 Publish Date : 2017/05/22
