Saudi Arabia joined Israel in lobbying the US to launch strikes against Iran.

Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, argued in favour of an attack during multiple phone calls with Donald Trump in the past month, sources told the Washington Post.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, also continued his long-standing campaign urging the US to join strikes on Iran, the Post reported.

Mohammed bin Salman ‘secretly lobbied Trump to attack Iran’

Melanie Swan

Iran has continued its retaliation after the US and Israel launched a barrage of strikes on Saturday morning, killing its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Correspondents in Dubai reported a fresh round of explosions on Sunday morning after several people were injured following an explosion at the city’s international airport. Strikes were also reported for a second day in Doha, Qatar and Manama, the capital of Bahrain.

Iran has so far launched attacks on six of its neighbours, inadvertently uniting the Middle East against the Islamic Republic.

The leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), previously at loggerheads, spoke on the phone after missiles struck their nations on Saturday.

The Saudi crown prince said that his country was ready “to place all its capabilities” at its neighbour’s disposal, shortly before attacks on Saudi soil were confirmed.

The joint attack on Saturday came despite American intelligence believing that Iran’s military probably posed no threat to the US mainland within the next decade.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran-inadvertently-unites-gulf-states-194431154.html

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Veteran investigative journalist and best-selling author Vicky Ward joined Mediaite for an in-depth discussion about Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, which has raised alarm bells and led to investigations by Democrats on Capitol Hill. Ward has long followed the business dealings of Kushner and his family in the New York real estate world and wrote the 2019 New York Times best-seller Kushner, Inc. about Kushner’s time in the White House and how he appeared to parlay that position into ever-increasing wealth.

Ward published a follow-up series in 2022 on her Substack Vicky Ward Investigates and dug into the $3 billion of foreign investment that flowed into Affinity Partners almost immediately after Kushner left the White House – including $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, a country to which Kushner developed deep ties while working for his father-in-law, then-President Donald Trump.

Senate Democrats have an ongoing investigation into the alleged quid pro quo between Kushner and his foreign investors, with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) publicly alleging that Affinity Partners acts as “a workaround for foreign governments to pay Trump officials without disclosure.”

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/are-jared-kushners-saudi-billions-the-biggest-trump-election-story-hiding-in-plain-sight-qa-with-vicky-ward/

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