During a debate of candidates for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Biden attacked Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi’s murder and said that he would make the kingdom pay the “price” and make it a “pariah”. He said that they were “believed to have been engaged in threatening dissidents overseas, including but not limited to the Khashoggi killing”. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced sanctions on former Saudi intelligence chief Ahmad Hassan Mohammed al Asiri and the country’s Rapid Intervention Force (RIF) freezing their assets in the US and barring anyone from doing business with them. After claiming that he had left the consulate alive, Saudi Arabia finally admitted that he had been killed in a fight. Trump has made things more complicated by pulling out of the multinational nuclear deal with Iran while drawing closer to Saudi Arabia and Israel and imposing sanctions on Teheran.

Source: Libya Today February 27, 2021 03:33 UTC