Biden and the King of Saudi Arabia discuss Iran, Yemen and global energy supply
The White House said in a statement Wednesday evening that President Joe Biden spoke by telephone with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia today.
The White House claimed in a statement that Biden and the King of Saudi Arabia discussed regional developments and common issues, including Houthi (Ansar al-Yemeni) attacks on Saudi-backed civilian targets in Iran.
According to the statement, Biden reiterated Washington’s commitment to supporting Saudi Arabia in defending its people and land against the attacks, and to fully supporting the United Nations’ efforts to end the war in Yemen.
According to IRNA, Saudi Arabia launched a large-scale offensive against Yemen, the poorest Arab country, on April 26, 1994, in the form of a coalition of several Arab countries, with the help and green light of the United States, under the pretext of returning ousted President Abd al-Mansour Hadi. The country’s fugitives to power, to fulfill their political goals and ambitions.
A White House statement claimed that the US president also reiterated his commitment to Iran’s non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and informed the Saudi king of multilateral talks to reintroduce restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program.
According to a White House statement, the two leaders discussed issues related to the West Asian region (Middle East) and Europe and agreed that their teams would work closely together in the coming weeks and months.
Both leaders also stressed the commitment of the United States and Saudi Arabia to ensure a stable global energy supply, the statement said.
According to IRNA, the lifting of sanctions has resumed after a short break, while the possibility of reaching a final agreement in this round depends on the readiness and will of the other side to make the necessary decisions, especially in the field of lifting sanctions.
The decision of the US Special Representative for Iran to attend a briefing session shows that the US is on the verge of re-entering the UN Security Council and releasing billions of dollars of frozen Iranian financial assets, the right-wing US media Washington Free Bacon wrote on Wednesday. .
Opposition and outspoken critics of Iran in Congress have scrutinized the Vienna talks because evidence suggests that Russia and China have taken the lead in pressuring the United States to accept Iran’s demands for sanctions.
The principled policy of the negotiating team of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been from the beginning that the criterion of negotiations should be the interests, principles and instructions of negotiations, and the time to reach an agreement depends on the fulfillment of these principles. The Islamic Republic of Iran wants to reach a good agreement in the shortest possible time, but it will not rush into negotiations, and fictitious deadlines will not violate the principles and red lines.