When I, a Saudi female who lives in the city of Jeddah, first heard the news last month that King Abdullah was going to let women vote, my first reaction was, “vote in what?”

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Thank You For Giving Me the Vote, King Abdullah. Now Can I Please Have Something to Vote About?

Bahrain said Saturday a cell planning to “target” its Interior Ministry, the Saudi embassy and a causeway linking the island state with neighboring Saudi Arabia had been broken up and its members detained.

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Bahrain Says Cell Plotting Attacks Is Broken Up

NEW YORK — A U.S. citizen who holds an Iranian passport pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Manssor Arbabsiar, 56, standing in his navy blue prison uniform, entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to a five-count indictment returned last week. Read full article > >

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Man indicted in NYC in plot to kill Saudi ambassador to the US pleads not guilty

Suspect denies trying to kill Saudi ambassador.

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‘Not Guilty’ Plea in Iran Terror Plot

Prince Sultan was the heir apparent to the Saudi throne and one of the kingdom’s most powerful princes.

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Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia Dies

TEHRAN — Iran is ready to “investigate” U.S. charges that its elite Quds Force plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Monday, while continuing to deny any Iranian involvement. “We are ready to patiently investigate any issue, even if it is fabricated,” Salehi told the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. “We also asked America to give us the information related to this scenario,” he said of the U.S. accusations. Read full article > >

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Iran ready to ‘investigate’ assassination charges

TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday denounced allegations by the United States of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, suggesting they were a pretext for further building an international consensus against Iran, state media reported . “They attempted to find an excuse by raising a meaningless and useless accusation against some Iranian nationals in America,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, speaking in the western province of Kermanshah, where he is on a 10-day official visit. Read full article > >

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Iran supreme leader: U.S. allegations of plot to kill Saudi envoy ‘meaningless’

Iranian officials deny any direct contact with the US about allegations Tehran was behind a plot to kill the Saudi envoy on US soil.

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Iran denies US meeting over plot

Iranian officials deny any direct contact with the US about allegations Tehran was behind a plot to kill the Saudi envoy on US soil.

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Iran denies US meeting over plot

President Obama will push for what he calls the “toughest sanctions” to punish Iranian officials whom he accused of complicity in a suspected plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States.

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Obama Vows to Punish Iran in Alleged Plot Against Envoy

Mansour J. Arbabsiar, suspected in an alleged Iranian plot to kill a Saudi diplomat in Washington, seems to have been more a stumbling opportunist than a calculating killer.

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Odd Turn for Mansour Arbabsiar, Suspect in Iranian Plot

Iran’s leaders said allegations that it schemed to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington were made up to distract Americans from economic problems highlighted by the Wall Street protests.

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Iran Claims Terror Plot Accusation Is Diversion by U.S.

Over alleged plot to assassinate Saudi ambassador.

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U.S. Seeks to Punish Iran

A Saudi woman is sentenced to 10 lashes for breaking the country’s ban on female drivers.

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Saudi woman driver to be lashed

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Sunday granted women the right to vote and run for elected office, the biggest change in a decade for women in the puritanical kingdom.

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Saudi Monarch Grants Women Right to Vote