Debunking the Claims in Trump’s Nov. 20 Saudi Arabia/Khashoggi Statement
NOVANEWS
WASHINGTON - In respsonse to President Donald Trump's statement about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi released on Tuesday, November 20, 2018.
CLAIM: “The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen. … Saudi Arabia would gladly withdraw from Yemen if the Iranians would agree to leave.”
FACT: Saudi Arabia launched a war against Houthi rebels in Yemen shortly after the Houthis ousted the Saudi-backed government in Sana’a. Iran advised the Houthis not to take over Sana’a, but they did anyway and were able to, not because of Iranian backing, but because of their alliance with forces aligned with the late former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. While the Houthis were and have been only loosely aligned with Iran, ha...