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West’s double standard against Iran and Saudi Arabia

Tuesday, 23 October 2018 3:29 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 23 October 2018 7:27 PM ]

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered and dismembered in Saudi consulate in Istanbul which once again proved the US's double policy in the Middle East.

In an unprecedented or at least unexpected event, Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, where he had gone to get the paperwork done for his upcoming marriage.

It took Saudi Arabia two weeks to acknowledge the disappearance of Khashoggi. He entered the consulate on 2nd October 2018, never to emerge. He had been close to the Saudi royal family, but last year, he exiled himself to the US after a crackdown on dissent in the country.

Western double-standards in dealing with Middle-Eastern states, specifically with Saudi Arabia versus Iran came to the surface after the Saudi journalist was murdered in the Saudi consulate in October 2nd, 2018. Saudi Arabia admitted to his death, but funnily enough, claimed it happened in a fight that broke out between Khashoggi, who had fallen out of favor with the Saudi government, and people who met him in the consulate.

According to Amnesty International at least 151 people have been put to death in Saudi Arabia so far this year in an unprecedented wave of executions marking a grim new milestone in the Saudi Arabian authorities use of the death penalty.

And yet the US and even some EU counties choose to be silent because their economies are tightly intertwined with the Saudi petrodollars. Saudi Arabia has bought billions of dollars of arms from the US to kill Yemeni children and women; however, all this does not bother the UN which claims to be a defender of human rights.

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