Biden’s fake promises are finally out of water.
Contrary to the US President’s election promise to “isolate” Saudi Arabia following the assassination of a Washington Post columnist, senior US officials announced that Washington and Riyadh had agreed to drop the issue.
Several senior US officials have announced that Washington is ready to “rebuild its relations” with Saudi Arabia and pass on the case of Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post.
“This is a major turning point in the position of US President Joe Biden, who promised in his election campaign to isolate Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi was killed,” the Siwan news website reported on Friday evening. Was. “Biden’s government released an intelligence report last year in which it directly accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of plotting to assassinate the Saudi journalist.”
Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist critical of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, was brutally murdered in October 2018 at the Riyadh Consulate in Istanbul. In response to the assassination, Ankara officials convened a trial in absentia to try the perpetrators, which, among other things, severely strained relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The US government said in a report on the killing that it was carried out on the direct orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“The two countries agreed to go through this issue (the assassination of Khashoggi) in order to establish peace and stability in the Middle East,” Sunan was quoted as saying by a senior US official.
According to news sources, the US government is currently seeking to improve relations with Riyadh due to the energy crisis in Europe following Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
Some media outlets have reported that the US president may travel to Saudi Arabia in the near future to meet with senior Saudi officials, including the Crown Prince and King.
