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The visit by the Iraqi president to Riyadh can be said to have been successful after years of disputes that had long marked their relationship. Fighting terrorism and drying up the sources of its revenues are the two most prominent themes of Masum’s meetings with Saudi officials, after which an agreement was reached that will be finalized with the upcoming visit of a Saudi security delegation to Baghdad.
The U.S. boom has a profound strategic impact on the GCC. It feeds an existing narrative of a coming U.S. abandonment of the Gulf and a need to find alternatives to U.S. security partnerships. For the Gulf states, no ready alternatives are apparent. In part as a consequence, the Gulf states are increasingly proactive in the economics and politics of surrounding states, which has its own impact on U.S. diplomatic and security policy in the Middle East.
A falcon’s price depends on its beauty and color. A white falcon with bluish–black eyes is the most in demand, especially if it also has a white head, Labdah says. The Peregrine falcon is the next most-valuable, ranging from 70,000–250,000 riyals (19,000–67,000 dollars). The cheapest, a smaller type of the Lanner Falcon (known as the “Wakari” in Arabic), never fetches anything more than 5,000 riyals (1,300 dollars). The Lanner and Peregrine falcons migrate yearly from Russia and Mongolia, which have the best types of falcons in the world, Labdah maintains.
Despite nearly a year of negotiations, Iran and six major powers are unlikely to meet a Nov. 24 deadline to reach a final deal to lift international sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, officials say. Western and Iranian officials told Reuters the two sides would probably settle for another interim agreement that builds on the limited sanctions relief agreed a year ago as they hammer away at their deep disagreements in the coming months.
Saudi Arabia will reopen its embassy in Baghdad “sooner than you imagine,” the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal told reporters after meeting with Iraqi President Fouad Masoum in Riyadh on Wednesday. Prince Faisal, who met Masoum at his residence in Riyadh, said he was keen to visit Iraq, and emphasized the Kingdom’s efforts to maintain national unity and stability in the neighboring country.
On Wednesday 12 November, FIFA President Blatter will embark on a two-day trip to Saudi Arabia. During his visit the FIFA President will officially open Goal project 1, the Leaders Institute Football Turf in Riyadh, which is designed for use by youth and grassroots activities and courses hosted by the Saudi Arabian Football Federation.
The U.N. representative to Syria on Tuesday formally proposed an “action plan” for a cease-fire in the besieged city of Aleppo that could serve as a step toward a broader solution to the ongoing civil war. Speaking from the Syrian capital, Staffan de Mistura said such a confidence-building measure could be used “as a building block in the direction of a political solution” for a nearly four-year-old conflict that has killed an estimated 200,000 people.
“We may get there and we may not,” a senior US administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told journalists traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry from Oman to Beijing. “I don’t think that anybody has said at any point recently that we are, quote/unquote, ‘on track’ to reach an agreement by the 24th.”
After years of operating in Asia through its offices in Hong Kong and South Korea, Saudi Aramco, the Kingdom’s state-owned oil company, is opening a brand new Asian subsidiary, Aramco Asia, setting up shop in the Chinese capital, Beijing. Structured as a holding company, Aramco Asia will run all its Saudi parent company’s operations in an areas stretching from India in the west to Australia and New Zealand in the east.
We might not hear this stuff, but Sunni Arabs do, especially now when the United States and Iran might end their 35-year-old cold war and reach a deal that would allow Iran a “peaceful” nuclear energy program. It helps explain something else you might have missed: Sunni militants burst into a Saudi Shiite village, al-Dalwah, on Nov. 3 and gunned down five Saudi Shiites at a religious event.
