Saudi vows to bring killers to book as King, CP meet Khashoggi family
riyadh — The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met family members of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Riyadh on Tuesday, staterun news agency SPA said.
They met Khashoggi’s son Salah and brother Sahel at the royal palace.
The report said King Salman and Prince Mohammed offered their condolences to the family of the journalist.
Saudi Arabia’s cabinet on Tuesday said it would hold accountable all those behind the murder of Khashoggi. The cabinet will “hold accountable all those who have failed in their duties no matter who they may be”, read a statement published by SPA. —
dubai — Saudi Arabia and Bahrain added Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and senior officers of its Quds Force to their lists of people and organisations suspected of involvement in terrorism on Tuesday..
The Saudi state news agency SPA quoted a statement from the security services saying Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, and the force’s Hamed Abdollahi and Abdul Reza Shahlai were named on the list.
The US Department of the Treasury in 2011 alleged that Soleimani, Abdollahi and Shahlai were linked to a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to the United States, Adel Al Jubeir, and imposed sanctions on them. Iran at the time dismissed the accusations as false and demanded an apology from the US government.
The office of the Revolutionary Guards and Iran’s foreign ministry were not immediately available for comment on Tuesday. The Quds Force is the extraterritorial branch of the Revolutionary Guards.
The SPA also said the Terrorist Financing Targeting Centre (TFTC), a US-Gulf initiative to stem finance to militant groups, had designated as terrorist-linked several people associated with the Afghan Taleban, some of whom were Iranians. —