Sentences with phrase «saudi regime»

For many years, Britain's business dealings with the brutal Saudi regime have been an ugly family secret.

However, in hindsight it was a turning point in Britain's worrying relationship with the Saudi regime.

The detention of several powerful Saudi figures and members of clergy, can not only be seen in terms of domestic reforms and consolidation of power intended by Mohammed bin Salman, but also as giving him more room to manoeuvre in developing closer ties with Israel, given the hostility Saudi regime would have faced from actors that are anything but pro-Israel.

The Saudi regime is heavily involved in the current conflict in Yemen that is blamed for causing widespread famine in that country.

And there is reason to believe the Trump administration's strong support of the Saudi regime could influence investors.

Not exact matches

The Saudis (Sunni) fear the Iranians (Shi'ites) and would not be sorry to see regime change in Iran.

We do not expect the changes at the oil ministry or Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency (SAMA) to herald any shift in the Kingdom's long standing FX regime or its stance on oil supply.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

Oil prices dropped sharply despite ongoing tensions in the Middle East, with the regime of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi recapturing lost ground from rebels and Saudi Arabian troops entering Bahrain to help out the embattled rulers.

But what you see is that all Islamic majority countries are ruled by secular regimes except for Two countries that are Ruled by Religious Regimes which are the Saudi Kingdom and the Iran Islamic Republic... and if those two stop their cold straggle that is getting all mixed up in their stubbornness and show respect to each other then only may the whole world have some peace and developmregimes except for Two countries that are Ruled by Religious Regimes which are the Saudi Kingdom and the Iran Islamic Republic... and if those two stop their cold straggle that is getting all mixed up in their stubbornness and show respect to each other then only may the whole world have some peace and developmRegimes which are the Saudi Kingdom and the Iran Islamic Republic... and if those two stop their cold straggle that is getting all mixed up in their stubbornness and show respect to each other then only may the whole world have some peace and developments...

«Hundreds of Saudis have rallied in the eastern city of Qatif to blast the regime for its military intervention in #Bahrain.

It was for USA's support of some of the «corrupt» regimes in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

It «sonly the extremely oppressive regimes of a few countries that practice Sharia Law and force female citizens to cover so much of their bodies (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nigeria).

Sales of American weapons to despotic, right wing regimes such as those in El Salvador, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Pakistan went through the roof.

So, before heading out to Saudi Arabia, Brendon had to learn how to drive with the Esports + Cars programme, as well as undertake a fitness and training regime.

Regardless of the atrocities Saudi Arabia has committed, governments of all political colours and stripes have consistently and uncritically supported the regime.

It is the best organized political movement in the chaotic society and can block Saudi Arabia's efforts to install a more fanatical Wahhabi based regime.

The Prime Minister claims she has raised issues including women's rights with the Saudi government but the Labour leader says she must go further and ban arms sales to the regime.

However, the religious right remained a peripheral force until the 1970s, and gained serious political clout only during the Bhutto regime, which banned alcohol, declared Ahmadis as non-Muslim and cultivated close ties with Saudi Arabia.

Even prior to the elections it was widely reported that the Saudi's preferred an Egypt run by the remnants of Mubarak's regime, such as Ahmed Shafik, than an Islamist candidate.

Only as al - Qaeda became active in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, did the US seek to woe the Saleh regime with military assistance.

Even Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, which had rushed to recognise the Taliban regime, finally made the uncomfortable discovery that a fundamentalist leadership equipped with political power was difficult to control.

The same country that in 2009 at the Arab Summit of Doha effectively sided with Syria and the axis of resistance against the moderate front led by Saudi Arabia, is now the most vocal proponent of military intervention against the Assad regime in Syria.

In a gripping insight into the real politick behind the scenes of the Syria crisis, it emerged that Saudi Arabia tried to offer Russia a game - changing oil agreement in return for Vladimir Putin's pledge to drop his support for the Assad regime in Syria.

Now USA has multiple bases in Saudi Arabia to project their power in the region as well as to protect the oil extraction and exports in the event of regime change or other instability.

«We are not oblivious of what the Saudi Crown prince divulge of recent in an interview with Times magazine, where he claimed that Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army was part of a grand design by his regime to curb the influence of Iran in Africa; even though the Saudi Authorities we know acted on the behest of its foreign sponsors namely USA, Britain and Israel.

Seemingly at the regime's behest, prime minister David Cameron, has called for an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood to be spearheaded by Sir John Jenkins, the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

He says the capital cities of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait «have been used as a base by wealthy individuals and religious foundations to channel millions of dollars to radical Sunni elements fighting Assad in Syria, either with the tacit approval of the regimes, or taking advantage of weak money - laundering protections within those states.»

This article examines Saudi Arabia's involvement in the climate change regime, and argues that the delegation has long played the role of obstructionist.

Two to three percent, as James Coan from the Baker Institute Energy Forum reminds us in a column for the trade publication FuelFix, is all the difference that Americans will see in their carbon footprint if they open up pipelines, like the pending Keystone XL, to the oil sands, instead of importing conflict oil from the oppressive and persecuting regimes of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Nigeria.

First off — air pollution, acid rain, climate change, wars in the Middle East and political entanglements with nice regimes like Saudi Arabia, just off the top of my head.

South Africa under apartheid would be another example, or King Salman of Saudi Arabia how has the Council of Political and Security Affairs and the Council for Economic Development Affairs to help bind the Suderi faction regime.

By blocking the construction of the proposed Keystone XL, which would have delivered roughly one million barrels of ethical Canadian oil to American markets every single day, the president prevented the potential displacement of existing oil imports from illiberal and undemocratic OPEC regimes like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

Will American energy independence not weaken the dictatorial regimes of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, because all their oil will be picked up immediately by China and India?

Delivering missiles to rebels in Yemen was deemed a «direct military aggression by the Iranian regime,» by Saudi...

Supplying rebels in Yemen with missiles was «direct military aggression by the Iranian regime,» declared Saudi...

After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.

Supplying rebels in Yemen with missiles was «direct military aggression by the Iranian regime,» declared Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz last week.

@gnasher729 This would be true, e.g., in India and Israel, which apply different family law regimes based upon religion, but not in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan where Sharia law has constitutional status.

There are few zero - rated or exempt items under the Saudi Arabian VAT regime.

Yet military buyers were invited from some of the world's most violent and repressive regimes, including Colombia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and China, currently subject to a United Nations arms embargo.