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Iran says ready to put rivalries aside with Saudi Arabia

What’s inspired a Saudi Arabia teacher shooting six colleagues dead? It posts a still photograph that showed ambulances gathered outside of a building in Jazan province.

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“The [US defense] secretary thanked the deputy crown prince for participating in today’s meeting of [NATO] coalition defense ministers, and for Saudi Arabia’s decision to increase its military contributions, especially the Kingdom’s offer to expand its role in the air campaign”, Peter Cook, Carter’s spokesman, said in statement.

As he emphasized that Morocco stands with Saudi against threats to the Gulf region’s peace, and said that the Saudi-led military operation which began in Yemen previous year “proved that it was launched to defend legitimacy” in the country. The security situation in the country has deteriorated since March when war broke out between the Shiite Houthi group, supported by former President Ali Abdullash Saleh, and the government backed by a Saudi-led Arab coalition.

Jazan, on the kingdom’s southern border with Yemen, has been targeted by missiles and cross-border fire since Saudi Arabia intervened in the Yemeni conflict. Also, a suicide bombing and gun attack on Shi’ite Muslim worshippers killed at least four people in eastern Saudi Arabia in January. This includes the preparation of derivative works of, or the incorporation of such content intoother works.

Carter met Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is also the country’s defence minister, at a gathering of coalition defence ministers at North Atlantic Treaty Organisation headquarters in Brussels. Member countries named previously by the Saudis range from the tiny African nation of the Comoros to major regional powers like Turkey. Russia and Saudi Arabia hold similar stances on worldwide issues such as stabilization of the situation in Syria, struggle against terrorism and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Russian Ambassador to Riyadh Oleg Ozerov told TASS.

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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who spoke in Munich before Zarif, made no references to Iran and underscored the differences over Assad’s future, telling European Union ministers and diplomats that the Syrian leader would be removed.

Members of Saudi Arabia's special forces. AFP