Washington-SANA
The US Department of Defense unveiled a new arms deal for the Saudi regime that includes three thousand precision-guided bombs valued at $ 290 million, as a continuation of the American blackmail series of this system.
Reuters quoted "the Pentagon" as saying in a statement that "the deal will include three thousand small diameter bombs (GBU 39), containers, support equipment, spare parts and technical support, which will contribute to increasing Saudi stocks of long-range surface-to-air munitions."
The administration of the outgoing President Donald Trump is keen to blackmail the Saudi regime in exchange for providing protection for it, describing it as a cash cow that generates gold and dollars. He also said in a previous interview with American Fox News: “I told the Saudis that they are a very rich country and they have to pay for the additional forces and they have already. Deposit one billion dollars ”.
For his part, William Hartung, director of the Security and Weapon Program at the Center for International Policy, said in a statement that “the Biden administration should stop ammunition sales if Congress is unable to stop them,” expressing concern about Trump's attempt to speed up the completion of controversial deals even though he has less than A month in power.
Trump also blackmailed the Saudi regime in the past, taking advantage of the operation that affected two oil facilities of Aramco affiliated with the Saudi regime in 2019 to demand that this system pay and pay money in exchange for the provision of American protection, and despite the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the notification does not refer to the signing of a contract or the completion of negotiations as the cooperation agency was notified Defense Security and the Senate to the possible deal, but some senators were angered by the heavy human losses among Yemeni civilians and tried earlier this year to stop the sale of F-35 fighters to Riyadh, but to no avail.
Several international human rights organizations criticized the continued supply of weapons by many countries, including the United States and France, to the Saudi regime, which has launched an aggression against Yemen since 2015, committing countless massacres against civilians.
