“F-35” is Washington’s trap to bring Bin Salman to the normalization process – Mehr News Agency | RCO News Agency
According to Mehr news agency, citing Al-Mayadin, Reuters news agency revealed a few days before the visit of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington that the US Departme of War has approved an advanced stage of a possible deal for the sale of 48 F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
According to US sources, Saudi Arabia’s request was made directly to Preside Donald Trump earlier this year, and after a lengthy review, the Peagon has completed a technical evaluation of the deal and placed the file on the Secretary of War’s desk to await administration and congressional approval..
Although the final decision has not yet been taken, the US has claimed that progress has been made in this case on the eve of Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington.
Although the Arab couries have long been considered one of the largest buyers of American weapons, they have always been denied access to advanced and special American equipme due to Tel Aviv’s opposition in the coext of changing the balance of deterrence in the region. In this way, the publication of such news in the shadow of Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington, one of the most importa programs of which is to advance the process of normalizing relations with the Zionist regime, has led political observers to the conclusion that Washington is trying to use this agreeme as a deception to drag Riyadh io the normalization process with Tel Aviv.
In this regard, the Yedioth Aharonot newspaper has expressed concern about the publication of such news and stated that the Zionist regime is worried that this deal will weaken the principle of “the air superiority of the Zionist regime” which guides the US weapons policy in the region..
The newspaper adds that the possible deal comes within the coext of broader communications through which Saudi Arabia seeks to conclude a comprehensive defense agreeme with the United States that includes security guaraees and civilian nuclear cooperation.
According to Yediot Aharonot, this action is considered a change in the traditional policy of the United States, which for several decades had refused to sell advanced aircraft to Arab couries outside the path of normalizing relations with the Zionist regime..
The reports come as the White House and the US War Departme declined to comme on the news, and Lockheed Martin emphasized that the deal would be “just an agreeme between the two governmes” if it goes through..
The atteion of the Zionist media to this issue and at the same time the lack of opposition and serious criticism of this agreeme shows that Washington and Tel Aviv, in coordination with each other, are trying to use this strategic agreeme as a tool to deceive Saudi Arabia and drag it io the trap of normalizing relations with the Zionist regime. Similar to this happened in the process of normalizing relations between the UAE and the Zionist regime in the framework of the Abraham Agreeme, and while the UAE had received guaraees for the purchase of F-35 fighter jets, despite the passage of more than 5 years and the progress of normalization with Israel, it has not yet managed to receive these fighters and there is no clear horizon to fulfill these obligations.
