Saudi lobby is busy saving KSA face in the US.
The British newspaper Guardian revealed that the Al Saud regime signed a contract with an American company specializing in public relations worth millions of dollars to improve its image.
According to this report, the American public relations company “Edelman” has received 9.6 million dollars from the government of Saudi Arabia over the past four years to improve the image of Al Saud.
This English newspaper further wrote: The Saudi government paid more than 5.6 million dollars to the American company Edelman to promote the image of Al Saud among the American people through the media by praising the efforts of the Saudi government in the field of women’s empowerment and also promoting the face of Princess Reema Bint. Bandar Al Saud” the Saudi ambassador in Washington, to improve.
According to the report of the mentioned newspaper, the government of Saudi Arabia signed a contract with Edelman Company worth more than 3 million dollars in exchange for providing strategic advice, media relations and other promotional work for the “Neom” project until July 2023.
The report continues: In August 2022, United Entertainment, a subsidiary of Edelman, contracted with the public investment fund to promote the controversial Saudi golf event.
The English Guardian newspaper wrote: The international organization “Freedom House” has ranked Saudi Arabia as one of the worst countries in the world in terms of human rights and civil and political freedoms.
This newspaper quoted Michael Abramowitz, the head of Freedom House, as saying that the Saudi government really restricts all political rights and civil liberties and arbitrarily tortures and executes opponents and critics.
According to the Guardian newspaper’s analysis of the documents of the US Department of Justice, since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the public relations company Edelman has received $9.6 million (£7.9 million) in fees from government agencies and companies controlled by the Al Saud regime. It has a contract with it.
Most of the activities of the American firm Edelman for the Al Saud regime have focused on rebuilding its tarnished image in the United States, an effort that Saudi Arabia had also begun before Khashoggi was killed by Saudi agents.
In February 2020, Edelman Public Relations Company was registered as an external agent on behalf of Saudi Arabia’s Sanee Company to promote the Business 20 executive meeting that was held in Riyadh that year.
