{"id":969165,"date":"2021-11-04T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969165"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:29:49","slug":"biden-admin-approves-650m-arms-sale-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-approves-650m-arms-sale-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden admin. approves $650M arms sale to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fbiden-admin-approves-650m-arms-sale-to-saudi-arabia%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=969165&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--><div id=\"attachment_2571365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2571365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Biden speaks on the authorization of the Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 in the South Court Auditorium, next to the White House, in Washington, D.C on November 3, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 3:48 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, November 4, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Biden administration approved a major arms sale to Saudi Arabia amid its ongoing proxy war with Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the State Department approved the sale of 280 air-to-air missiles to Riyadh at an estimated cost of $650 million. Saudi officials claimed the weapons will help protect the kingdom from drone attacks by Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n<p>A State Department spokesperson said the sale \u201cis fully consistent with the administration\u2019s pledge to lead with diplomacy to end the conflict in Yemen while ensuring Saudi Arabia has means to defend itself from Iranian-backed Houthi air attacks.\u201d This comes as there has been an increase in cross-border attacks against Saudi Arabia over the past year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saudi gets first major arms deal under Biden with air-to-air missiles <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iqkIWCgeJI\">https:\/\/t.co\/iqkIWCgeJI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/64gFwmh3SS\">pic.twitter.com\/64gFwmh3SS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1456373300561682432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Yemeni-based group has also been known to target Saudi oil facilities and civilian infrastructure in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Biden\u2019s decision contradicts past statements by Democrats who tried to block arms sales to the Saudis under 45th President Trump.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alec-baldwin-speaks-out-for-first-time-following-prop-gun-death\/\">Halyna Hutchins\u2019 Husband Plans To File Wrongful Death Suit Following Accidental Shooting On Movie Set \u2018Rust\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden speaks on the authorization of the Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 in the South Court Auditorium, next to the White House, in Washington, D.C on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969165","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}