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The US network “CNN” said Tuesday that the administration of US President Joe Biden “is lying” when it claims that it is not possible to impose direct sanctions on the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, as the leader of a foreign organization. country, noting that the three US presidents who previously, Biden imposed direct sanctions on foreign leaders.
This came after White House spokeswoman Jane Saki defended in an interview with “CNN” the reason for not imposing sanctions on bin Salman, following the publication of the CIA report on the murder of the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
At the time, Saki said, “Historically, and even in contemporary history, American administrations, whether Democratic or Republican, have not imposed sanctions on the leaders of foreign governments with whom we have diplomatic relations and even those with whom we do not have diplomatic relations. “
But the truth revealed by the US network is that the administration of former President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
The administration of former US President Barack Obama imposed sanctions against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Syrian regime president Bashar al-Assad and former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and US sanctions also affected both the former leader of Myanmar, Than Shwe, as well as the former president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, and the former president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, under sanctions from the administration of former president George W. Bush.
US intelligence concluded in its report, published last Friday, that the Saudi crown prince “agreed to kidnap or kill Khashoggi, as he viewed him as a threat to the kingdom, and supported the use of violent measures if necessary to silence him” .
After that, the US administration announced the imposition of new sanctions on Saudi officials, including Ahmed Asiri, a former deputy intelligence chief and members of the Rapid Intervention Force, with the exception of bin Salman.
While the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia announced in a statement, on Friday, its “categorical rejection” of the “abusive and incorrect conclusions about the leadership of the Kingdom” in the report.
Khashoggi was assassinated on October 2, 2018 at the Riyadh consulate in Istanbul, in a case that shocked international public opinion.
