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How Biden’s best-laid plans for Iran and Saudi Arabia failed in his first month Vox.com 3/1/2021 © Samuel Corum-Pool/Getty Images President Joe Biden makes an address on February 27. President Joe Biden’s first month handling Iran and Saudi Arabia shows the new administration has succumbed to a classic problem: Initial plans and promises made during a campaign rarely survive once you’re actually governing. As the Democratic candidate, Biden promised a swift return to the Iran nuclear deal. He then aimed to leverage that negotiation to curb other aspects of Tehran’s aggressive beh...

February 26, 2021 POMED, Human Rights First, PEN America, Committee to Protect Journalists Respond to ODNI Report on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Related Campaigns & Topics WASHINGTON – The Project on Middle East Democracy, Human Rights First, PEN America, and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following joint statement in response to the U.S. government release of a declassified version of the congressionally mandated report on who was responsible for the murder of Saudi journalist and Virginia resident Jamal Khashoggi: The Pr...

Published date: 27 February 2021 00:06 UTC | Last update: 3 weeks 5 days ago The virtual ink on a US intelligence report blaming Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi had not dried when the Biden administration ruled out imposing sanctions on the crown prince - a move that rights groups say would be fundamental for ensuring justice for the slain journalist. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on Friday that Washington will not take action against the crown prince himself.  The US State and Treasury departments had announce...

Intelligence report: Saudi prince 'approved' operation that killed Jamal Khashoggi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2019. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AP) The Biden administration on Friday afternoon released an intelligence report that concludes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation to capture or kill Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside his country’s consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018. “The world was horrified” by the journalist’s murder, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after the report’s release. He added the adm...

The new US administration has signalled it expects the desert kingdom to ‘change its approach’ in a break with Trump policy