tag US-Saudi ties

Guide to $400 Billion in Saudi-U.S. Deals: Black Hawks to Oil

EghtesadOnline: Saudi Arabia signed billions of dollars of deals with U.S. companies during President Donald Trump’s visit to Riyadh. Estimates of their total value vary from $300 billion to close to $400 billion.
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Publish Date:22/May/2017 | 14:44

With Three Words Missing, Trump Tries to Change Tone on Muslims

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump set aside a defiant catchphrase of his political campaign in his first major address to the Muslim world, refraining from using “radical Islamic terrorism” to describe the threat.
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Publish Date:22/May/2017 | 04:20

Corporate A-Listers Descend on Riyadh for Trump's CEO Summit

EghtesadOnline: Defense contractors were the big winners, but President Donald Trump’s first day in Saudi Arabia yielded a slew of high-profile investment deals that showcased the administration’s ability to draw support from major corporations.
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Publish Date:21/May/2017 | 05:48

Trump's Saudi speech to urge unity against radical Islam: AP

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump will call for unity in the fight against radicalism in the Islamic world when he speaks in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, characterizing the effort as a "battle between good and evil," the Associated Press reported on Friday, citing a draft of his speech.
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Publish Date:20/May/2017 | 06:31

Saudi-U.S. Ties Shift as Kingdom Turns to Trump for Investments

EghtesadOnline: Just a few years back, the business relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia was pretty simple: The Americans bought oil, and the Saudis spent much of what they earned on equipment to keep the crude flowing and on planes, tanks, and missiles to protect their borders.
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Publish Date:20/May/2017 | 05:10

U.S. to transfer four Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia

EghtesadOnline: The United States will transfer four detainees to Saudi Arabia from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in the next 24 hours, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, in President Barack Obama's final push to shrink the inmate population there despite pressure from the president-elect to halt such releases.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 05:04

Saudi’s reliance on Trump’s America to yield no results

EghtesadOnline: Iranian parliament Speaker's special advisor on international affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian emphasized the reliance of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on Donald Trump’s America will yield no beneficial results for them.
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Publish Date:29/May/2017 | 10:34

US arms deals will fail to make Saudi secure: Iran FM

EghtesadOnline: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the recent US arms deal with Saudi Arabia will fail to guarantee lasting security for Saudi Arabia as claimed by the US Department of State.
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Publish Date:27/May/2017 | 24:07

Trump Sticks to Script in Mideast, Trying to Turn Page on Russia

EghtesadOnline: At this rate, Donald Trump might never want to come home. In Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his marathon first trip outside the U.S. as president, he rubbed shoulders with sheikhs and kings, scooped up $110 billion in defense deals, and delivered a well-received speech on combating terror. He arrived in Israel today to pursue what he’s called the ultimate deal, Middle East peace.
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Publish Date:22/May/2017 | 14:42

Iran asks US to stop arming 'main terror sponsors'

EghtesadOnline: Iran has urged the US to stop supplying arms to “main sponsors of terrorism” after President Donald Trump clinched a massive $110 billion military deal with Saudi Arabia on his first visit to the Middle East.
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Publish Date:22/May/2017 | 10:49

Saudi King, Trump Take Turns Attacking Iran as Terror Backer

EghtesadOnline: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and U.S. President Donald Trump took turns launching scathing attacks on Iran, which the Sunni monarch called the “spearhead of global terrorism,” underscoring a common goal in undercutting the Islamic Republic’s regional influence.
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Publish Date:22/May/2017 | 04:25