Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, brought news of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s declaration of his nation’s decision to join the BRICS when he returned from Riyadh earlier this week. This is not entirely unexpected because Iran and Argentina made similar announcements in the spring. The increasing association will need us to come up with ever-complicateder acronyms... 

The controversy over Saudi Crown Prince MbS’s alleged orchestration of the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi has largely subsided since the government insider-turned-critic walked into the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in early October and never walked out. But a new controversy is brewing over one of the kingdom’s most controversial practices: Its mass-beheadings of men convicted... 

Manssor Arbabsiar (2R), is charged over an alleged Iranian government-directed plot to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States. Federal Court in New York, October 11, 2011 American authorities reportedly disrupted an Iranian government plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Washington declared that it is “committed to holding Iran accountable.” Two men,...