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Benjamin Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen in Saudi Arabia

23 November 2020
According to the Israeli press, on 22 November 2020 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen travelled Neom, in Saudi Arabia, to meet with Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman ("MBS").
Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have official diplomatic relations.

Trump adapts US energy strategy

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 14 April 2020
While most people are absorbed by the time-distribution measures of the epidemic, the Saudis are questioning the power of their American protector. A showdown between Riyadh and Washington, which was already disrupting the world economy before the spread of Covid-19. President Trump considered taking control of Saudi and Venezuelan oil, which apparently led him to forge new alliances.

Saudi gereontocracy tested by Covid-19

10 April 2020
0n 23 March 2020, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for a worldwide ceasefire to fight Covid-19.
In Yemen, the Houthis, who had just defeated Saudi Arabia in the North of the country, immediately called on the various armed forces on the ground to respect a truce.
It was not until 8 April that Saudi Arabia announced a ceasefire starting on 9:00 a.m. GMT the following day (date of the OPEC oil price meeting).
The Kingdom is hard hit by the epidemic, which is (...)

White House planning "oil alliance" with Saudi Arabia

25 March 2020
As Washington takes stock of the Saudi defeat in Yemen and rumors in Riyadh of a possible coup d’etat are rife, Victoria Coates has been nominated US Special Envoy for Energy. She is reported to have arrived in Riyadh where she will reside.
Ms. Coates is suspected of having penned the column published in 2018 by the New York Times, "I am part of the resistance within the Trump administration" and of having written the book: A warning (Une alert) .
Reputed to be close to Donald (...)

First NATO-ME War Overturns Regional Order

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 24 March 2020
While Europeans and Arabs are being absorbed by the coronavirus, Anglo-Saxons are changing the world order. Under US command, the United Kingdom took control of the Red Sea entrance; the United Arab Emirates turned on Saudi Arabia and inflicted a bitter defeat on South Yemen, while the Houthis did the same in North Yemen. Yemen is now split into two separate states and the territorial integrity of Saudi Arabia is threatened.

Saudi Arabia makes oil price drop to $ 31 per barrel

10 March 2020
The price of crude per barrel plunged 20% on the European markets and 30% on the Asian markets following the quarterly OPEC meeting in Vienna, reaching it’s lowest level in eleven years.
Dismissing proposals to slightly cut its oil production during the current global economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus crisis, Saudi Arabia has aggressively forced prices to plummet.
Saudi Arabia is the main player in the Organization of the Petroleum Producing Countries, of which Russia is only an (...)

Motive behind Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination

4 March 2020
Iranian journalist Saeed Kamali Dehghan (photo) working for The Guardian has confirmed that Jamal Khashoggi was his informant. According to him, the latter’s revelations to him constituted the motive for the assassination of the Washington Post journalist (and member of the Muslim Brotherhood), on 2 October 2018 in Istanbul.
In October 2018, Saeed Kamali Dehghan published three articles spotlighting the Saudi connections of certain media . He pointed out, in particular, that London-based (...)

Russian comment on attack against oil infrastructure facilities in Saudi Arabia

Moscow (Russia) | 16 September 2019
According to media reports, a large-scale drone attack was launched in the early hours of September 14 against oil refineries of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company Saudi Aramco near the cities of Abqaiq and Khurais in the eastern part of the Kingdom. The Houthi Ansar Allah movement, now fighting against forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Arabian Coalition supporting him in Yemen, has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Riyadh has already called this terrorist attacks. (...)

Saudi Arabia informed of advance of attacks in Sri Lanka

21 May 2019
Sri Lankan police have arrested a Wahhabi preacher, Mohamed Aliyar, director of the Islamic Guidance Center in Kattankudy, a Muslim-dominated Eastern city.
He would be related to Zahran Hashim, the leader of the operation led by Daesh at Easter, which claimed the lives of nearly 270 people and injured more than 500.
The Islamic Guidance Center, which was attended by the local Daesh leader, is funded by donations from Mohamed Aliyar’s Islamic classmates in Riyadh.
The Hezbollah-based (...)

Saudi Arabia supports China against the jihadists

25 February 2019
The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed ben Salman, travelled to China on an official visit. The purpose: to contribute his support to China’s anti-terrorism policy.
The Crown Prince’s trip is taking place just as Turkey issues a declaration denouncing the repression that China is applying, according to Ankara, against the Uigur people, a people of Turkish language and Muslim religion. At the same time, China has just started a biometric censure in the region of Xinjiang, where the majority of the (...)

Saudi Arabia will fund the reconstruction of Syria

2 January 2019
According to President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia could providing the core funding for reconstructing the Syrian Arab Republic.
Over the last seven years, Saudi Arabia has spent more than 500 billion dollars to bring down the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The only reason Saudi Arabia had criticized him was because he was not Sunni. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia was willing to accept that the Republic remains intact and that his vice president succeeds him.
The Saudi decision was taken (...)

The Opening of the 2018 Session of the Future Investment Initiative of Riyadh

24 October 2018
The 2018 session of the Future Investment Initiative opened on 23 October 2018 in Riyadh. This conference was inaugurated in 2017 and the intention was that it become an annual event. However, the feet of most speakers and foreign sponsors turned blue with hypothermia following Jamal Khashoggi’s death.
The Future Investment Initiative was being marketed the “Davos of the Desert”. During the 2017 Session, the Crown Prince Mohamed Ben Salmane (now commonly referred to as “MBS”) presented Project (...)

The Quincy Pact only protects the King of Arabia, not his heir

by Thierry Meyssan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 23 October 2018
The Panamanians who remember Washington’s arrest of its employee, General Noriega, will not be surprised by the fate reserved for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. The Jamal Khashoggi affair is one of MBS’s most insignificant crimes, but will probably be his last. The Saoud family is not protected by the Quincy Pact, which only applies to the King. The United States should recuperate several billion dollars.

Jamal Khashoggi’s death: joint statement by UK, France and Germany

21 October 2018
Joint statement by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of France and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas of Germany:
“The violent death of Jamal Khashoggi, within the premises of the Saudi Consulate General in Istanbul had been feared for many days but its confirmation still comes as a shock.
Nothing can justify this killing and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms. ‎
Defending freedom of expression and a free press are key priorities for (...)

The Saudis are publicly divided

20 October 2018
De-fusing the plot to bring down the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed ben Salmane (« MBS »), has caused several members of the Royal family to flee.
While King Salmane personally assured the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, that he knew nothing about the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, it was rumoured that his son, MBS, had definitely requested that he be presented with the head of Prince Al-Waleed’s right hand man.
Prince Ahmed ben Abdelaziz, King Salmane’s brother, has set up a permanent base (...)

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