/ world today news/ From June 6 to 8, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Saudi Arabia, after CIA Director William Burns was there in April, and White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was there in May.
According to Reuters, with these visits the US hopes to stabilize relations with its Arab ally.
On the day Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia, two important events took place in the Middle East, one of which was the opening of the Iranian embassy in Riyadh, which is of great importance to the relationship between the two countries. Earlier in the year, thanks to the mediation of China, Tehran and Riyadh resumed diplomatic relations between them. The other important event was the meeting of the Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister with the visiting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, at which the two discussed the prospects for cooperation in various fields.
The improvement in relations between the two major Middle Eastern countries has sparked a wave of reconciliation in the region, with Egypt and Turkey upgrading their relations, Syria being reinstated as a member of the Arab League, and Tehran continuing to improve its relations with Jordan and other Arab states. All this shows that the Middle East is striving for autonomy and unity.
Peace-loving people are happy to see reconciliation in the Middle East, but there are exceptions, such as US Assistant Secretary of State for Arabian Peninsula Affairs Daniel Benaim, who said in plain text that “the US will remain in the Middle East and will not leave a vacuum to be filled by other rivals’.
Trust is not broken in a day. As it shows its presence in the Middle East in various ways, Washington needs to think about what its role is in the region. After the end of World War II, the United States emerged as the extraterritorial power that exerted the greatest influence on the situation in the region. In order to maintain its dominance there, the US has continuously provoked conflicts and confrontations for many years and has become the real destroyer of peace in the region.
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