“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 Department 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 President Donald Trump earlier this year, and after a lengthy review, the Pentagon 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 countries have long been considered one of the largest buyers of American weapons, they have always been denied access to advanced and special American equipment due to Tel Aviv’s opposition in the context 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 important 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 agreement as a deception to drag Riyadh into 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 context of broader communications through which Saudi Arabia seeks to conclude a comprehensive defense agreement with the United States that includes security guarantees 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 countries outside the path of normalizing relations with the Zionist regime..

The reports come as the White House and the US War Department declined to comment on the news, and Lockheed Martin emphasized that the deal would be “just an agreement between the two governments” if it goes through..

The attention of the Zionist media to this issue and at the same time the lack of opposition and serious criticism of this agreement shows that Washington and Tel Aviv, in coordination with each other, are trying to use this strategic agreement as a tool to deceive Saudi Arabia and drag it into 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 Agreement, and while the UAE had received guarantees 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.