MUST-READS

• Anti-U.S. Sentiment
  The history of ‘Death to America’

  Iran itself has had a complicated relationship with the phrase, at points trying to downplay it: For example, when it is officially translated to English, it is "Down with America" (an alternative translation of the Farsi original: مرگ بر آمریکا). Iranian clerics briefly canceled the use of the chant after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, though it returned with a vengeance after President George W. Bush listed Iran as part of an "axis of evil" in 2002.

  • Washington Post - Exile group accuses Iran of secret nuclear weapons research
• Economic Diversification
  Opportunities in Saudi’s economic diversification in focus

  The need for greater economic diversification in Saudi Arabia and the opportunities that diversification will create for local and international banks will be reviewed at an upcoming Euromoney conference in the kingdom.

• Saudi-Lebanon
  France to begin deliveries on $3 billion Saudi-financed arms deal to Lebanon in April

  France says it will begin shipping $3 billion worth of weapons paid for by Saudi Arabia to the Lebanese army in April.

• MERS
  Almost all Gulf camels have MERS, warns Saudi health official

  Almost all camels in the Gulf are infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a Saudi Health Ministry official has been reported as saying.

• Tanmiyat
  Saudi’s Tanmiyat to Spend $218 Million Finishing Dubai Projects

  Tanmiyat, a Saudi property developer and investor, plans to spend 800 million dirhams ($218 million) this year completing Dubai projects that stalled after the city’s 2008 real estate collapse.

• Finance
  Morgan Stanley, BofA Set to End U.S. Banks Saudi Drought

  Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp. are set to work on the first share sale in Saudi Arabia managed by a U.S. bank since 2008, as the largest stock exchange in the Middle East prepares to open to foreign investors.

• Military
  Saudi Typhoons Use Paveway IV Bombs on ISIS

  Typhoon combat jets flown by the Royal Saudi Air Force have used Paveway IV precision-guided bombs to strike Islamic State terrorists, marking the first time the weapon has been launched in anger from the Eurofighter-built aircraft, according to gulf region sources.

• Oil
  Saudi’s Naimi says oil markets are settling

  "We don't want anything that creates volatility in the market," Naimi told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in the port city of Jizan, southwest Saudi Arabia.

  • CNN Money - Saudis won't back emergency OPEC meeting
• New Leadership
  Two Princes Are Rising Stars of King Salman’s Saudi Arabia

  When the new Saudi king installed his own team, the most eye-catching appointments involved two princes young enough to be steering the world’s biggest oil exporter for decades to come.

  • Saudi Gazette - Opinion: Muhammad Bin Salman: Like father like son
• Al Qaeda
  Saudi court jails al Qaeda recruiters, bin Laden associate

  A Saudi court has jailed at least 13 men on counts including the recruitment of al Qaeda militants for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and sheltering Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Saudi newspapers said on Tuesday.

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