A Widening Gulf: Impediments to Saudi Rapprochement with Iran
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Bandar bin Saud Al Saud
Bandar’s Back. Again.
Just after midnight local time, Saudi Arabia’s official news wire announced early Tuesday that the King issued royal decrees making major changes in the country’s national security ec...
Policy Briefs
Saudi Arabia in Syria: Naughty, Not Nice
Saudi Arabia, over the last year, has gone from being a relatively constructive actor in Syria to fueling a jihadist nightmare in the Levant. Information is just now starting to emerge, but repor...
Policy Briefs
Black Gold And Black Veils
Women aren't allowed to drive, even to save their lives. Political parties are banned. Free speech doesn't exist.
Op-eds
Bandar’s Return
As my friend Simon Henderson has been chronicling, "Bandar is back." Sidelined in recent years by some combination of illness and palace intrigue, Saudi Arabia's legendary former ambassador...
Op-eds
Too Much Make-Believe
In the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia was effectively cut off from all sources of raw film stock. Luckily for the Soviets, cheap copies of the silent films imported during the wa...
Op-eds
Khobar Towers
Ten years ago this Sunday, acting under direct orders from senior Iranian government leaders, the Saudi Hezbollah detonated a 25,000-pound TNT bomb that killed 19 U.S. airmen in their dormitory a...
Op-eds
The U.N.’s Greatest Failure; Saddam’s Iraq Evidently Passed Turtle Bay’s Global Test
Authored by Andrew Apostolou Wednesday's report by Charles Duelfer demonstrated not only that United Nations weapons inspections in Iraq were a bust, but also the fundament...
Op-eds
Perfidious PR Push
By FDD The Saudi regime is desperately trying to convince us that it is fighting terrorism. Over the weekend, it arrested and killed some nonentities in Mecca and announced with great fa...
Op-eds
Saudi Spinning
By Stephen Schwartz DENIAL IS A RIVER in Arabia, not Egypt. The proof of this axiom came Friday. In place of a serious assessment of the Saudi kingdom's increasing loss of credibili...