Iran Pres/Middle East: After political scandal for Saudi Arabia and specially for Mohammed Bin Salman as mastermind of silencing outcry critic Jamal Khashoggi, an emergency task force which established to advise Saudi crown prince in aftermath of Khashoggi killing, suggest that war in Gaza would be good scenario for diverting public opinion attention from international crises which Bin Salman involved into it.
Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman persuaded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to start a conflict with Hamas in Gaza, sources inside Saudi Arabia have told Middle East Eye.
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This task force, composed of Saudi officials from the royal court, the foreign and defence ministries, and the intelligence service also advised bin Salman to “neutralize Turkey by all means” - including bribery and offers to buy Turkish arms.
Khashoggi was brutally killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, in an operation which Turkish authorities believe was carried out by a hit squad whose suspected members contained several members of bin Salman's personal bodyguards.
Some of the task force’s other recommendations were leaked to a close confidant of bin Salman, Turki Aldakhil, the general manager of the Al Arabiya news channel. He revealed "more than 30 potential measures" that Riyadh could take if Washington imposed sanctions.
Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with Al Arabiya's General Manager Turki Al-Dakhil
Aldakhil later dismissed these revelations “as his ideas only", but his original article on the Al Arabiya website sources these threats to “decision-making circles within the kingdom”.
He said the kingdom was capable or doubling or tripling the price of oil, offering Russia a military base in the north of the country, and turning to both Russia and China as its main arms suppliers instead of purchasing weapon from US.
In recent days Israel launched air strikes in Gaza after Israeli military forces staged an incursion into the southern Gaza Strip to kill Hamas Military commanders. These daily air raids expanded by Hamas hundreds of rockets targeting southern occupied territories.
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