Washington, 26th February: US President Joe Biden told Saudi King Salman that he would work for strong bilateral ties with Saudi Arabia. Baaghi TV: According to reports from the White House, Joe Biden on Thursday told Saudi King he would work for bilateral ties as strong and transparent as possible. The statement came out ahead of the expected release of a sensitive US intelligence report on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Sources say that the report is a declassified version of a top-secret assessment that points out that the king’s son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the murder of Khashoggi in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. However, Saudi Arabia has denied that the 35-year-old crown prince, the de facto ruler of the kingdom, approved the killing. A source told Reuters that the release of the report got delayed as the crown prince underwent surgery earlier this week. According to earlier reports from Baaghi TV, Khashoggi was a US resident and a journalist in the Washington Post, who wrote columns critical of the crown prince’s policies. The release of the declassified report on Khashoggi’s death is part of Biden’s reforms of the US-Saudi relations and Biden … Continue reading Biden and Saudi King talk ahead of release of Khashoggi’s report