{"id":1913939,"date":"2023-04-13T00:40:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T04:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-praises-very-productive-meeting-with-saudi-crown-prince\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T00:41:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T04:41:23","slug":"graham-praises-very-productive-meeting-with-saudi-crown-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-praises-very-productive-meeting-with-saudi-crown-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Praises \u2018Very Productive\u2019 Meeting With Saudi Crown Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-praises-very-productive-meeting-with-saudi-crown-prince%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1913939&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina has softened his stance on Saudi Arabia after a \u201cvery productive\u201d meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his senior leadership team on April 12. The senator previously condemned the Saudi regime in 2018 following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, calling it a \u201cbetrayal\u201d and suggesting he would support sanctions against the Saudis. However, Graham now admits that \u201cthe opportunity to enhance the US-Saudi relationship is real and the reforms going on in Saudi Arabia are equally real.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A positive shift indeed. <\/p>\n<h2>Earlier Harsh Comments<\/h2>\n<p>Graham\u2019s earlier sentiment came in the wake of the questionable circumstances of Khashoggi\u2019s death, which brought mistrust and suspicion upon the Saudis, with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ruling them responsible for Khashoggi\u2019s assassination. At the time, the South Carolina senator stated that Prince Mohammed\u2019s actions were not those of a \u201ctrue love\u201d for country and that it would not have happened if he respected the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Graham now seems to support the idea of improving relations between the US and Saudi Arabia, arguing that it would be a \u201ctremendous economic benefit to both countries and bring much-needed stability to a troubled region.\u201d He also praised their recent decision to purchase two Boeing 737s. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) softened his earlier stance on Saudi Arabia following what he described as a \u201cvery productive\u201d meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his senior leadership team on April 12. In a Twitter thread after the meeting, Graham said that \u201cthe opportunity to enhance the U.S.\u2013Saudi relationship is real and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1913940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7348,10932,3803,4470,7360,5672,20711,6259],"class_list":["post-1913939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-very","tag-crown","tag-graham","tag-meeting","tag-praises","tag-prince","tag-productive","tag-saudi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}