.@tparsi: “Saudi Arabia’s ultimate aim is to drag the United States back into the Middle East in order for Washington to reestablish its military dominance and reimpose on the region an equilibrium that favors Tel Aviv and Riyadh.”http://nationalinterest.org/feature/saudi-arabia-wants-fight-iran-the-last-american-23212 …
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@AP investigation: “Why would American Media, best-known for publishing salacious stories of sex and scandal, sink money into printing 200,000 copies of a magazine with a grinning Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman splashed across the cover?” https://nytimes.com/aponline/2018/04/24/us/politics/ap-us-saudi-arabia-us-tabloid.html#click=https://t.co/HUsINmKtcN …Show this thread -
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@b_omani: “The resulting poke to the eye of the feminist Trudeau government is a perceived win in the Saudi foreign policy community and a helpful distraction from a few weeks of domestic embarrassment for the Crown Prince over his father’s rebuke.”https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-saudi-arabias-bold-move-has-nothing-to-do-with-canada/ …Show this thread -
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@jricole: Bin Salman “is a serial diplomatic disaster. ... Despite his trumpeting further moves of Wahhabism away from strict purtanical regulations of public life in Saudi Arabia, Bin Salman has undone virtually all the good work of King Abdullah.”https://www.juancole.com/2018/08/problem-erratic-savagely.html …Show this thread -
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@madawidr: “This situation is unsustainable and even dangerous. There's been a serious erosion of regime legitimacy [...] What we may see is a slow and gradual erosion of regime legitimacy that may last for a long time—before a serious implosion.”https://www.newsweek.com/slow-implosion-saudi-crown-prince-muhammad-bin-salman-opinion-1120224?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true …Show this thread -
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@BrookingsFP's Bruce Riedel: "The stability of Saudi Arabia is becoming more fragile as the young crown prince’s judgment and competence are increasingly in doubt. [MBS] has a track record of impulsive and reckless decisions at home and abroad"https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/en/originals/2018/09/saudi-arabia-stability-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman.html …Show this thread -
“Khashoggi had been close to the previous Saudi regime, but fled the kingdom a year ago, soon after the new monarch anointed his son, Prince Mohammed, as prince. He subsequently became an outspoken critic of some aspects of the country’s reform programme”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/06/saudi-journalist-killed-inside-consulate-turkish-sources …
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"Media companies are pulling out of a high-profile business conference [Future Investment Initiative, also known as 'Davos in the desert'] in Saudi Arabia as questions mount about the kingdom's role in the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/11/media/saudi-conference-media-sponsors-khashoggi/index.html …
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“Meshal Saad al-Bostani, named by pro-government Turkish media as one of 15 men suspected of killing the Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi, died in a car accident in Riyadh, according to a report from a pro-government newspaper.”https://www.businessinsider.de/khashoggi-suspect-mashal-saad-al-bostani-reportedly-dead-in-car-crash-2018-10 …
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@InsideFreuds,@Independent,@VICEUK, Tony Blair's@InstituteGC are among the many UK firms that have undertaken work with the Saudi state recentlyhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/19/saudi-arabia-pays-uk-firms-millions-to-boost-image …Show this thread -
"Saudi Arabia has admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi ... is dead. Riyadh claimed that he was killed in a “fist-fight” with Saudi officials. ... The credibility of the Saudi court is already stretched to breaking point."https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/19/jamal-khashoggi-dead-saudi-arabian-state-television-confirms …
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@WSJ report on MbS puts on view the power the US has over its client states; and it’s instructive of the perils of concentrated power https://www.wsj.com/articles/scandal-over-dead-journalist-jolts-heir-to-saudi-throne-1540076164 …pic.twitter.com/yy42qP9SUZ
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@davidahearst: “It is palpable nonsense to say there is only one saviour of the 30,000 strong House of Saud. ... To leave bin Salman in position ... is to imperil the kingdom and to let a monster live another day.”https://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/why-mohammed-bin-salman-now-circling-wagons-2013703846 …Show this thread -
“The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the killing”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-concludes-saudi-crown-prince-ordered-jamal-khashoggis-assassination/2018/11/16/98c89fe6-e9b2-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html …
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“it remains dumbfounding that the alleged Russian collusion is treated as an apocalyptic event while similar and far more insidious interference from Saudi Arabia over the course of decades is met with a collective shrug”https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/trump-russia-bush-saudi-arabia …
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“A $300 million chateau is one of a string of extravagant purchases for a prince who is cracking down on ill-gotten wealth and preaching fiscal austerity.”https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/world/middleeast/saudi-prince-chateau.html …
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Amazing reporting on the very close relationship between Jared Kushner and the Saudi and Emirati crown princes, by
@ryangrim,@AlexEmmons &@claytonswisherhttps://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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"Arab leaders from UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Jordan plotted to counter Turkey and Iran, and replace the GCC and Arab League"https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/976118725006020608 …
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@MarkMazzettiNYT and@ddknyt: "Hundreds of pages of correspondence between [George Nader and Elliott Broidy] reveal an active effort to cultivate President Trump on behalf of the two oil-rich Arab monarchies, both close American allies." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/us/politics/george-nader-elliott-broidy-uae-saudi-arabia-white-house-influence.html …pic.twitter.com/w99G4ZjJvy
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"The Saudis and Emiratis have had particularly warm relations with the Trump administration. Mr. Trump at times has appeared to side with the Arab monarchies against his own cabinet secretaries — including in the bitter regional dispute against neighboring Qatar."
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