Pelosi: Trump ignores Saudi regime violence against innocent Yemenis

Washington - SANA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump's plan to arm the Saudi and Emirati regimes is a shameful attempt to circumvent the US congressional consensus, an unacceptable measure of concern, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday.

"The American people will not stand idly by while Trump undermines our security and puts the lives of our soldiers at risk," Pelosi said in a press release posted on the Internet. "Americans are tired of war and have no interest in another conflict in the Middle East," particularly on behalf of the Saudi regime, which continues. "Assaulting countless men, women and children."

Pelosi said that Trump again ignores the regime's ongoing violence against innocent Yemenis as well as the horrific killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as well as his gross human rights violations, a moral and humanitarian crisis.

Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the US Congress were working again to push for an end to Trump administration support for the Saudi-led aggression coalition in the war on Yemen, while the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was In July, the US endorsed legislation imposing sanctions on the Saudi regime and banning some arms sales to the regime.

It is noteworthy that the Saudi regime waged with the support of the United States of various types of weapons continuous aggression on Yemen since 2015, which has killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in addition to the systematic destruction of infrastructure, especially health, which led to the spread of epidemics and diseases that in turn claimed the lives of tens of thousands of children And women and elders.