PressTV-US arms companies worried about Saudi deals

American weapons manufacturers have expressed concerns to the White House that Congress might block further arms deals with Saudi Arabia over the suspected murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, according to reports.

Democrats and some Republicans have indicated that the Khashoggi case had created resistance in Congress to proposed weapons sales to the Saudis that could be worth tens of billions of dollars.

The most direct call for punishing Riyadh came from Republican Senator Rand Paul, who tweeted on Thursday that the Saudi killings of dissidents and opposition journalists would not stop unless the US stopped “arming and assisting” the regime.

Even before that, some lawmakers had…

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