(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will seek to ease Saudi concerns that he is neglecting an old ally when he visits Riyadh on Friday, months after top Saudis objected to what they saw as a growing rapprochement between Washington and their rival Iran. Rifts over Middle East policy came to a head last year when Washington worked with other powers ...

In the wake of the Geneva interim agreement of late November, which marked the first formal agreement between Iran and the United States since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there are increasing hopes and fears of an Iranian-US rapprochement. Whilst much of the international community views Iranian-US rapprochement in positive terms, the conservative ...

The trick to finding an agreement between the P5+1 world powers and Iran has become clear: keep Israel and Saudi Arabia out of the room. (But dont expect them to be happy about it.) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is touring the globe now with his message of doom about an impending Iranian nuclear weapon. It will be tragic if (Iran) succeeds ...

An analyst says Israel and Saudi Arabia are against the normalization of Irans ties with the US and other Western countries as they are deeply concerned over the promotion of the Islamic Republics kudos as a regional heavyweight,Press TVreports. In a Saturday article on Press TV website, Finian Cunninghamlashed out at Tel Aviv and Riyadh for being ...