TEHRAN, Feb 24 - The Saudi regime appointed Prince Khalid bin Salman, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s full younger brother, as deputy defense minister on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - A Saudi princess also was appointed as the kingdom’s first woman ambassador to the United States.
The Saudi state news agency SPA published appointments as Riyadh is making efforts to beguile global attentions from the last year Saudis' murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi slaughter tarnished the regime's relations with its key Western allies.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was a Washington Post columnist known for his critical writing on the Riyadh regime, was killed on October 2, 2018, after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. His body was dismembered and has not yet been found.
Mohammed himself has been defense minister since 2015, when he invaded Yemen to reinstated fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
The Saudi regime, with the support of the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and several other countries, has initiated a military aggression against Yemen and ground sieges, naval and air strikes since March 2015.
The Saudi-led war has killed more than 16,000 Yemeni people including thousands of women and children, injuring tens of thousands more, displacing millions of Yemeni civilians, and and pushing the impoverished country to the brink of famine.
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