Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.

Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.

Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.

We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.

We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.