Saudi Arabia
Iran warns of war as U.S. continues accusations it bombed Saudi oil refinery
September 19, 2019Foreign Ministry says any U.S. action would be met with an immediate response.
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UN: ‘Both sides responsible’ for war crimes in Yemen
September 4, 2019UN panel demands outsiders - the United States, Britain, France, and Iran - stop supplying arms to the warring sides.
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Egyptian minister: Sisi opponents abroad will be “cut to pieces.”
July 25, 2019At a meeting July 22 with the Egyptian community in Montreal, that country’s foreign minister, Nabila Makram Abdelshahid, assured attendees that any Egyptian living abroad who publicly criticizes the Al Sisi dictatorship will be murdered.
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Lawmakers try to block Trump’s latest 22 Saudi arms deals
June 5, 2019Trump is trying “an end run” around Congress.
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Working-class internationalism: Italian dock workers block Saudi weapons ship
May 21, 2019Genoa has a long history of solidarity. It was the first to block U.S. ships headed to Vietnam, and dock workers here refused to allow war equipment to disembark for the 1973 Chile coup.
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