Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images
MBS erupted at US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan when the two men first met last year, WSJ reported.
The crown prince began “yelling” at Sullivan after he brought up the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Khashoggi was assassinated in 2018, and the CIA later concluded that MBS personally ordered his assassination.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman erupted at a meeting with national security adviser Jake Sullivan last year when Sullivan brought up the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported that the dispute took place last September, when the two men met for the first time since President Joe Biden took office.
Although the crown prince wanted to keep a “relaxed tone” for their meeting, “he ended up yelling at Mr Sullivan after bringing up the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” the newspaper reported. “The prince told Mr. Sullivan that he never wanted to discuss the matter again,” people familiar with the discussion told The Journal. The crown prince also said the US “may forget its call for a boost in oil production”.
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Khashoggi, 59, a longtime Washington Post columnist known for his criticism of the Saudi kingdom, was murdered and dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 after he went there to obtain papers for his upcoming wedding.
The CIA concluded a little over a month later that Prince Mohammed, also known as MBS, had personally ordered Khashoggi’s murder.
Tuesday’s Journal report detailed the deteriorating US relationship with Saudi Arabia in recent years. These divisions have deepened since Russia launched a full-scale, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February.
The US and other western nations have urged the kingdom to increase its crude oil production to offset rising oil prices and limit Russia’s ability to fund its war. But, The Journal reported, Saudi Arabia has so far refused to do so and its interests remain aligned with those of Russia.
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