President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States has been raising many years of sanctions against Syria and that the United States has received $ 600 billion from Saudi Arabia to invest in the USA on a trip to the USA.
The United States agreed to sell Saudi Arabia to sell an arms package worth almost $ 142 billion, according to the White House, which it described as “largest contractual agreement on defense”, Washington.
The surprising announcement about the sanctions would be a great boost for Syria, which was destroyed by more than a decade of civil war. Rebels led by the current President Ahmed al-Sharaa plunged the President Bashar al-Assad last December.
In Riad, Trump spoke in Riyadh and said that he was acting on request to scrap the sanctions by Saudi -Arabiens de -Facto -ruler Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“Oh, what I’m doing for the crown prince,” said Trump, pulling Lacher out of the audience. He said the sanctions had performed an important role, but it was now time for the country to get ahead.
The United States declared Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1979, added sanctions in 2004 and imposed further sanctions after the civil war in 2011.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shibani said on X that the planned step marked a “new beginning” on the Syria’s way to reconstruction. Trump agreed to greet Sharaa briefly in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, an official from the White House said.
Trump and Saudi Crown Prince signed an agreement on energy, defense, mining and other areas. Trump has tried to strengthen the relationship with the Saudis in order to improve regional relationships with Israel and act as a bulwark against Iran.
The agreement includes treatises with more than a dozen US defense companies in areas such as air and rocket defense, Air Force and space upstream, maritime security and communication, according to the FASTACHLETBLATT. The Saudi prince said that the deal included investment opportunities worth 600 billion US dollars, including offers worth 300 billion US dollars, which were signed during Trump’s visit.
“We will work in the second phase in the coming months to complete business and increase it to $ 1 trillion,” he said.
Saudi Arabia is one of the largest customers for US weapons.
In April, Reuters reported that the United States was ready to offer the kingdom a weapon package worth well over 100 billion US dollars.
“I really think we like ourselves a lot,” said Trump during a meeting with the crown prince, the de -facto -ruler Saudi -Arabia.
The United States and Saudi Arabia had discussed Riad’s potential purchase of Lockheed F-35 jets. Two sources that have been informed about discussions told Reuters on a military aircraft in which the kingdom has been interested in a long time.
It was not immediately clear whether these aircraft were covered in the deal announced on Tuesday.
Trump, who was accompanied by US economists, including the billionaire Elon Musk, will drive on Wednesday and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday from Riad to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
He has not planned a stopover in Israel, a decision that raised questions about where the close ally in Washington is priorities, and the focus of the trip is more on investments than on security issues in the Middle East.
However, Trump wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a new ceasefire contract in the 19-month Gaza Red.
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The military operations of Israel against Hamas in Gaza and the Hisbollah in Lebanon and their assassinations of the two leaders of the Iran allied also have more levers by Tehran and its regional allies.
The US and Iranian negotiators met in Oman at the weekend to discuss a potential business to curb the Tehran nuclear program. Trump has threatened military measures against Iran if diplomacy fails.
Trump spoke in a forum about Saudi USA investments in Riad and said on Tuesday and said relationships with Saudi Arabia will be even stronger.
Trump called the Saudi crown prince a friend and said that according to a pool report by the Wall Street Journal, they had a good relationship and added that Saudi investments would contribute to creating jobs in the USA
The Crown Prince, which is also known as MBS, has concentrated on the diversification of the Saudi economy in a large reform program called Vision 2030, which includes “giga projects” such as Neia, a futuristic city of the size of Belgium. The oil achieved 62 percent of the Saudi revenue of the Saudi government last year.
The kingdom has reduced some of its ambitions because rising costs and falling oil prices weigh.
Saudi Arabia and the United States have had strong relationships on the basis of an iron -clad agreement in which the kingdom delivers oil and offers the superpower in exchange.
Trump said that it was his “fully hopeful” that Saudi Arabia would soon sign his own normalization agreement with Israel and added: “However, you will do it in your own time.”
Nevertheless, Netanyahus opposition makes progress in the Gaza or against the creation of a Palestinian state unlikely against similar conversations with the Saudis, the sources of Reuters are unlikely.
