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The Saudi Monarch has indefinitely postponed a trip to France amid speculation that the cancelation is over his aggressive comments on Iran and Israel.

On Sunday, the French foreign ministry said that Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal will meet with French counterpart Bernard Kouchner later in the week.

The announcement comes two days after the Saudi Embassy in Paris said King Abdullah had postponed his trip, with the French media suggesting the decision was over an article that appeared on the website of Le Figaro newspaper on June 30.

The article claimed the Saudi monarch had expressed deep hatred toward Iran -- a rising Shia power in the Middle East -- as well as his country's archenemy, Israel, during a meeting in Jeddah with French Defense Minister Hervé Morin on June 5.

“There are two countries in the world that do not deserve to exist: Iran and Israel,” the article cited French military and diplomatic sources as quoting King Abdullah.