BEIRUT, Lebanon For decades, Saudi Arabia has poured billions of its oil dollars into sympathetic Islamic organizations around the world, quietly practicing checkbook diplomacy to advance its agenda. But a trove of thousands of Saudi documents recently released by WikiLeaks reveals in surprising detail how the governments goal in recent years was ...

Saudi Arabia has been paying media outlets across the globe in a bid to manipulate them into projecting a positive image of the kingdom in the international arena, a new report says. Reporters Without Borders made the revelations in the report published on its website on Thursday, citing newly leaked Saudi diplomatic documents, dubbed the Saudi ...

Tehran, July 5, IRNA Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has said that documents recently leaked by WikiLeaks on Saudi Arabia will cost Riyadh dearly. In an interview with Arabic-language daily `Al-Vefaq, Ayatollah Rafsanjani said, This is harmful (for Saudi Arabia). It will cost Saudi Arabia dearly and its consequences ...

DUBAISaudi Arabia tried to stoke unrest in Iran and undermine its interests in the region, according to a trove of documents purportedly obtained from the kingdoms foreign ministry and published by WikiLeaks. The documents offer what would be a rare glimpse into the workings of one of the reclusive kingdoms most outward-facing ministries. Many are ...

The documents which were recently released by WikiLeaks reveal that Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran worked together with the Saudi Kingdom to combat the influence of Iran in the world, FNA news agency reported. The Saudi embassy in Tehran requested the kingdoms officials to stir unrest in Iran in order to change the countrys political system, one ...

Islamabad, June 21, IRNA - Pakistani scholar and senior analyst on Saturday said that WikiLeaks could shed light on the hidden facts about Saudi secret role in the eight years of imposed war against Iran under the dictatorship of Saddam Husseins regime (1980-1988). Speaking to IRNA exclusively, Agha Murtaza Poya, a former Pakistani politician, believed ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Lebanese MTV asked Saudi Arabia to pay $20mln to launch propaganda for Riyadh but settled for smaller price of $5mln, according to one of the documents gained and released by the Yemen Cyber Army after its May hacking of the Saudi Foreign Ministry. The Saudi Foreign Ministry was hacked by the Yemen Cyber Army in May and a copy ...

Kuwait, June 21, IRNA Secret documents released by WikiLeaks show that Saudi Arabia has been trying to stop Irans Arabic news network Al-Alam TV. The site published a letter by the Saudi foreign minister on the need to stop Irans Al-Alam news network from broadcasting via Arabsat. In a story titled Buying Silence: How the Saudi Foreign Ministry ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 11 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The WikiLeaks documents on Saudi Arabias behind-the-scenes measures and the comments of the judiciary spokesman about a number of high-profile cases dominated the front ...

Saudi Arabia has been heavily investing in the US government, so it is unlikely that the latest WikiLeaks revelations will seriously damage the relationship between the two key allies, Director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs Ali Al-Ahmed told RT. The recent WikiLeaks release of around 70,000 hacked Saudi Cable documents, including diplomatic ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon It seems that everyone wants something from Saudi Arabia. Before becoming the president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi wanted visas to take his family on a religious pilgrimage. A Lebanese politician begged for cash to pay his bodyguards. Even the state news agency of Guinea, in West Africa, asked for $2,000 to solve many of the problems ...

ISTANBUL (AP) -- At the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, diplomats talk about kicking up trouble among disenchanted youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum, they report on Iran's military aid to Sudan. Meanwhile in Geneva, the Saudi mission is stuck dealing with a multi-million dollar limo bill racked up by a Saudi royal and her entourage....