Posts Tagged: Trump Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia Warned Iran to Reach Nuclear Deal With Trump or Risk Israeli Strike
Saudi Arabia's defense minister delivered a blunt message to Iranian officials in Tehran last month: take US President Donald Trump's offer to negotiate a nuclear agreement seriously because it presents...
Why Do Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE Need All Those American Weapons?
During last week’s visit to the Middle East, President Trump signed a number of arms deals with some of the richest countries in the region...
Left Off the Itinerary, Reinforced for Battle: How Trump’s Gulf Gambit Secretly Fortified Israel
President Donald Trump’s four-day Middle East tour, which included stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates -- but conspicuously omitted Israel --...
Under Trump, Saudi Civil Nuclear Talks Delinked From Israel Recognition, Sources Say
The United States is no longer demanding Saudi Arabia normalize ties with Israel as a condition for progress on civil nuclear cooperation talks, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters ahead of US...
Trump Poised to Offer Saudi Arabia Over $100 Billion Arms Package, Sources Say
The United States is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion, six sources with direct knowledge of the issue told Reuters, saying the proposal was being lined up for announcement during US President Donald Trump's...
Saudi Arabia Abandons Pursuit of US Defense Treaty Over Israel Stalemate
Saudi Arabia has abandoned its pursuit of an ambitious defense treaty with Washington in return for normalizing relations with Israel and is now pushing for a more modest military cooperation agreement, two Saudi and...
Why Saudi Arabia Should Make Peace With Israel Now
I spent the weekend reading Ben Hubbard’s book MBS, about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Hubbard, who is The New York Times' Beirut bureau chief,...
Politics, America, and Culture: Behind Saudi Arabia’s Hesitation
Many are puzzled by the Saudi reluctance to join the peace train and normalize relations with Israel. It is clear, after all, that Riyadh gave...
Would Biden’s Middle East Proposals End Any Prospect for Saudi-Israeli Normalization?
The Abraham Accords were the product of a slowly developing structural shift in Middle East geopolitics that led to an alignment of interests between the...
The Myth of Saudi Moderation
JNS.org - They almost had me believing. The Saudis, that is. Last week, they almost had me believing that they are truly becoming moderate and really...
Report: Trump Told Saudis to Cut Oil Supply or Lose US Military Support
As the United States pressed Saudi Arabia to end its oil price war with Russia, President Donald Trump gave Saudi leaders an ultimatum. In an April...
Biden Campaign Attacks Trump Policy on Saudi Arabia, North Korea
Democrat Joe Biden's presidential campaign launched new attacks on Donald Trump on Sunday, advocating a reevaluation of US-Saudi relations and calling North Korea's apparent weapons...
Attack on Saudi Oil Facilities Puts US Commitments to the Test
Reading the tea leaves of various US and Saudi statements on the allegedly Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia's key oil facilities on September 14, it...
Trump Sees Many Options Short of War With Iran After Attacks on Saudis
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday there were many options short of war with Iran after US ally Saudi Arabia displayed remnants of drones...
