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Lindsey Graham Calls for Sanctions on Saudi Arabia Over Khashoggi Disappearance
Senior Republican senator says Saudi Prince Mohammed is ‘toxic’ and ‘has got to go’
Senator Lindsey Graham said Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “can never be a world leader on the world stage.” Photo: jim bourg/Reuters
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By Courtney McBride
Oct. 16, 2018 10:16 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON—A senior Republican senator on Tuesday called for sanctions against Saudi Arabia over the disappearance and presumed killing of a dissident journalist in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate this month, and said he would not return to the kingdom as long as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman remains in power.
In an interview on Fox News, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) said it was up to President Trump to decide the U.S.’s course of action, but he said, “I know what I’m going to do: We’ll sanction the hell out of Saudi Arabia.” He did not elaborate.
“Nothing happens in Saudi Arabia without MBS knowing about it,” Mr. Graham, a top Republican foreign policy hand, said, using shorthand for Prince Mohammed, a son of Saudi King Salman and the de facto leader of the kingdom.
While he described Saudi Arabia as, in the past, “a good ally,” Mr. Graham said “there is a difference between a country and individual. The MBS figure to me is toxic. He can never be a world leader on the world stage...This guy has got to go.”
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