{"id":12800,"date":"2024-08-12T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T21:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=12800"},"modified":"2024-08-12T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T21:05:25","slug":"us-to-resume-sales-of-offensive-weapons-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/analysis\/defense\/us-to-resume-sales-of-offensive-weapons-to-saudi-arabia\/2024\/08\/12\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"US to resume sales of &#8216;offensive&#8217; weapons to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\">WASHINGTON, August 12\/VOA\/&#8211;<\/span>The United States said Monday it would resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, ending a yearslong suspension triggered by the kingdom&#8217;s bloody operations in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>With Saudi Arabia once again seen as a pivotal player for the United States as the Gaza war enters its 10th month, the State Department said it would return to weapons sales &#8220;in regular order with appropriate congressional notification and consultation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saudi Arabia has remained a close strategic partner of the United States, and we look forward to enhancing that partnership,&#8221; State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden took office in 2021 pledging a new approach to Saudi Arabia that emphasizes human rights and immediately announced that the administration would only send &#8220;defensive&#8221; weaponry to the longtime U.S. partner.<\/p>\n<p>The step came after thousands of civilians were estimated to be killed in Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, including children, in a campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have taken over much of the country.<\/p>\n<p>But geopolitical considerations have changed markedly since then. The United Nations, with U.S. support, brokered a truce in early 2022 that has largely held.<\/p>\n<p>Since the truce, &#8220;there has not been a single Saudi airstrike into Yemen and cross-border fire from Yemen into Saudi Arabia has largely stopped,&#8221; Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Saudis since that time have met their end of the deal, and we are prepared to meet ours,&#8221; Patel said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, August 12\/VOA\/&#8211;The United States said Monday it would resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, ending a yearslong suspension triggered by the kingdom&#8217;s bloody operations in Yemen. With Saudi Arabia once again seen as a pivotal player for the United States as the Gaza war enters its 10th month, the State Department said [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[26,2409,2459],"tags":[77,1701,8924,8925],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/US.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12802,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions\/12802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}