Dave DeCamp (2022-07-18). Biden Promises Not to 'Walk Away' From the Middle East at GCC Summit. news.antiwar.com President Biden on Saturday vowed that the US would not "walk away" from the Middle East during a summit attended by regional leaders in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The summit was attended by members of the Gulf Cooperation Council plus Iraq, Egypt, and Jordan, known as the GCC+3. Biden's message to the Gulf monarchs and other …

Barry Sheppard (2022-07-18). Biden's Middle East trip a failure. greenleft.org.au United States President Joe Biden's trip to the Middle East was all about re-setting relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia, despite their ongoing state violence and repression, reports Barry Sheppard.

WSWS (2022-07-18). Biden concludes Mideast trip focused on US conflict with Russia, China. wsws.org The US war drive against Russia and China was the driving force of the US president's four-day trip to Israel, the West Bank, and Saudi Arabia.

Staff (2022-07-17). Iran urges for regional dialogue; Arab NATO to get nowhere. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) — The head of Iran's Strategic Foreign Relations Council Seyed Kamal Kharrazi has said Tehran is ready to hold regional dialogue with important countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Egypt, Qatar and other countries.

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-17). Biden Disputes Saudi Account of MbS Meeting on Khashoggi. news.antiwar.com President Biden told reporters on Sunday that one of Saudi Arabia's top diplomats Biden met with MbS in Saudi Arabia on Friday and told reporters afterward that he raised the issue of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who was killed by Saudi agents at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul in 2018. US intelligence later concluded that MbS ordered the killing. | Biden said he conf…

_____ (2022-07-17). Biden The Warmonger Gets Played By The Saudis. popularresistance.org Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — On the second day of his trip to Saudi Arabia, President Joe Biden met with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates—along with Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq to discuss security issues, but particularly to push for a united front against Iran. Biden has spent much of his trip to the Middle East reinforcing the regional policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump, rather than implementing the policies on which he campaigned for president. And he is rightly taking heat for his meetings yesterday with S…

____ (2022-07-17). Saudi leaders meet with Biden over bilateral ties. ecns.cn Saudi Arabian leaders on Friday met with visiting U.S. President Joe Biden in the city of Jeddah to discuss bilateral relations, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

Staff (2022-07-17). Biden disputes Saudi account of Khashoggi murder discussion. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) — US President Joe Biden on Saturday differed with Saudi Arabia in their account of discussions at a bilateral summit about the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Brett Wilkins (2022-07-16). Rights Groups Urge Biden to Secure Release of US Lawyer Held in UAE. commondreams.org The Dubai arrest of Asim Ghafoor—who once represented slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi—came two days before Biden met with the Emirati president in Saudi Arabia.

Juan Cole (2022-07-17). Bin Salman: US Whitewashed Israeli Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, so why is Biden so upset about Khashoggi? juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, pulled back the curtain for the Alarabiya news channel (Saudi-owned but based in Dubai) on what transpired at the meeting between President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: Al-Jubeir confirmed that Biden, as he had pledged, quickly …

____ (2022-07-17). Saudi leaders meet with Biden over bilateral ties. ecns.cn Saudi Arabian leaders on Friday met with visiting U.S. President Joe Biden in the city of Jeddah to discuss bilateral relations, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

Syed Zain Abbas Rizvi (2022-07-17). Biden's Middle East Tour: A Mockery of the American Foreign Policy. moderndiplomacy.eu From pledging to make the country a pariah state to fist-bumping with an alleged murderer shrouded as a crown prince, the US foreign policy has indeed covered the whole circle around Saudi Arabia. I mean, with all due respect to Mr. Biden, this is not the first time the US has cast duplicity in the …

WSWS (2022-07-16). Biden hands blank check to Saudi Arabia in Middle East visit. wsws.org The aim of Biden's Middle East trip is to reassert Washington's standing with some of the most tyrannical rulers on the planet and line them up behind Washington's proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

Jason Ditz (2022-07-16). Iran Proxy Claims Iraqi PM Wants Normalization With Israel. news.antiwar.com This weekend's GCC+3 summit in Saudi Arabia is fueling some controversy in Iraq. Iraq PM Mustafa Kadhimi will attend the summit, and his rivals in pro-Iran proxy groups think he's up to something. | It's not clear how this got started, but Ketaib Hezbollah figures are claiming that some Israelis might attend the summit, expanding that to PM Yair Lapid possibly being there, and then suggesting Kadhimi There is no evidence of any of this, and Lapid almost certainly…

Anonymous811 (2022-07-16). BRICS Expanding: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt Willing To Join The Group. southfront.org Putin takes part in the BRICS meeting | Purnima Anand, president of the BRICS international forum, said on July 14 that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt are considering joining BRICS. The possibility of countries joining, as well as their potential admission to the ranks of the BRICS, could take place in 2023 when the next summit of the group will be held. The countries themselves have expressed a desire to join the union, but if approved, the application process will be lengthy. | South Africa will host th…

Staff (2022-07-16). Saudi TV cuts program when Biden answers Khashoggi question. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Saudi al-Arabiya Al-Arabiya TV cut its coverage of press conference by visiting US President Joe Biden as soon as he started to answer a question about his previous reaction on the slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Brett Wilkins (2022-07-16). Rights Groups Urge Biden to Secure Release of US Lawyer Held in UAE. commondreams.org The Dubai arrest of Asim Ghafoor—who once represented slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi—came two days before Biden met with the Emirati president in Saudi Arabia.

Staff (2022-07-16). In Jeddah Summit, Biden says US will not exit from ME region. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Saudi-hosted summit in Jeddah with the participation of Aran states rulers and US President Joe Biden was held on Saturday.

Staff (2022-07-16). US, Saudi Arabia issue joint anti-Iranian statement. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Accusing Iran of interfering in other countries' internal affairs, the US and Saudi Arabia in a joint statement stressed their commitment to deter the country to do so.

____ (2022-07-16). "Our hands remain outstretched to Iran": Saudi Arabian FM. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Stating that his country's hands remain outstretched to Iran, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said that negotiations with Iran have been 'positive', but it has not yet reached their goal.

Staff (2022-07-16). Iran, S Arabia rapprochement in Iraq's interest: al-Kadhimi. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Iraq's caretaker prime minister says it is in Iraq's interest to keep pushing for a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to ease regional tensions.

Staff (2022-07-16). Arabia Saudita anuncia aumento de su producción de petróleo de 13 millones de barriles por día. cubadebate.cu Arabia Saudita anunció que aumentará la producción diaria de petróleo hasta 13 millones de barriles, tras lo cual no tendrá la posibilidad de incrementarla. El anuncio se produjo al día siguiente a la llegada al país del presidente de EE.UU., Joe Biden, con el objetivo de buscar una solución para rebajar los precios de los combustibles.

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-15). Report: US Clinches Deal for Steps Toward Saudi-Israeli Normalization. news.antiwar.com The Times of Israel reported Thursday that President Biden An unnamed Middle Eastern diplomat told the Times that Egypt had agreed to transfer the control of two Red Sea islands, T…

Editor (2022-07-15). Chris Hedges: War with Iran. scheerpost.com Illustration by Mr. Fish — "Biden at Bat" | By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia are plotting a war with Iran. The 2015 Iranian nuclear arms accord, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Donald Trump