Iran Press/ America: A group of eleven US Senators in a letter, urged "Donald Trump" to discuss financial dealings between the Trump Organization and Saudi Arabia.
Earlier this week US media reported that lobbyists representing Saudi Arabia paid for 500 rooms at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC, Iran Press reported.
“We write today to request information regarding any financial ties between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and your family business interests,” the letter said.
Senators Tom Udall, Patrick Leahy, Richard Durbin, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Martin Heinrich, Edward Markey, Richard Blumenthal and Jeffrey Merkley signed the letter.
Trump administration is under severe pressure inside America to cut its friendly relations with the Saudi regime because of the murder of Saudi journalist "Jamal Khashoggi" in the country's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct.02.
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Khashoggi, a one-time royal insider who had been critical of the crown prince recently, was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
After weeks of denials of any involvement in Khashoggi’s disappearance, the Riyadh regime eventually acknowledged the “premeditated” murder, but has vehemently sought to distance the heir to the throne from the case.
A Saudi prosecutor said Khashoggi's body had been dismembered, removed from the diplomatic mission and handed to an unidentified “local cooperator."
The CIA is said to have concluded that Mohammad Bin Salman had “probably ordered” the murder.
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A highly-classified CIA assessment, seen by The Wall Street Journal, said the Saudi crown prince had sent at least 11 messages to Saud Qahtani in the hours surrounding the journalist’s killing.
A Turkish prosecutor has issued arrest warrants for two Saudi nationals close to the Crown Prince over the brutal murder of the dissident journalist.
President Donald Trump has said he will not stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia in response to the murder of former Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October.
Trump said such action would hurt the United States and give away large defense contracts to other countries, such as China and Russia.
Also, Republican and Democrat lawmakers have called on the US to halt sales of arms to Saudi Arabia and to conduct an independent investigation into Khashoggi’s death saying that any investigation by the Saudis could not be trusted.
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