Saudi Arabia Minister
Faisal bin Farhan
فيصل بن فرحانForeign Minister of Saudi Arabia since October 2019. Career diplomat; led Saudi diplomacy through the Iran rapprochement and the post-October-7 regional posture.
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Minister
Position
2 source documents on file for Faisal bin Farhan (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Speech English 2025-07-28 Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (Saudi Foreign Minister) — press conference at the UN two-state conference, 28 Jul 2025 (per Middle East Monitor): "normalisation with Israel can only come through the establishment of a Palestinian state" — Saudi recognition conditioned on Palestinian statehood and self-determination.
for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia normalisation with Israel can only come through the establishment of a Palestinian state. That position remains the same and it is based on a strong conviction that only through the…
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Speech English 2023-06-17 Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (Saudi Foreign Minister) — statement during his Tehran visit, ~17 Jun 2023 (post-rapprochement; per Gulf Research Center): Saudi–Iran cooperation on regional security, maritime-navigation security, and a region free of weapons of mass destruction. [Second doc — distinct SAUDI–IRAN DÉTENTE / regional-de-escalation axis, vs his existing Israel-normalization-conditionality doc.]
I would like to refer to the importance of cooperation between the two countries on regional security, especially the security of maritime navigation, and the importance of cooperation among all regional countries to…
How to cite
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In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Faisal bin Farhan [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/faisal-bin-farhan
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Faisal bin Farhan." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/faisal-bin-farhan.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-faisal-bin-farhan,
title = {{Faisal bin Farhan}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/faisal-bin-farhan},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.