{"id":309169,"date":"2017-05-21T14:21:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T13:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/saudi-arabia-very-encouraged-by-trump-position-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-05-21T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T13:21:41","slug":"saudi-arabia-very-encouraged-by-trump-position-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/saudi-arabia-very-encouraged-by-trump-position-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia \u2018very encouraged\u2019 by Trump position: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Saudi Arabia is \u201cvery encouraged\u201d by the approach that US President Donald Trump has taken on regional issues, said a senior Saudi cabinet minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very encouraged by the position the Trump administration has taken,&#8221; Khaled al-Falih, minister of energy, industry and mineral resources, told AFP on the sidelines of summits between the US president and Muslim leaders in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi official said Riyadh is \u201cabsolutely not\u201d concerned about the brewing scandals that have come to beset Trump at home, touting the decades-old alliance between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur relationship is with the United States of America and it has great leadership today,&#8221; al-Falih said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has recently been beleaguered by a string of domestic woes\u00a0that intensified\u00a0with his abrupt dismissal of FBI chief James Comey, whose agency was investigating possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats have begun to discuss&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/05\/21\/522700\/Saudi-Arabia-very-encouraged-by-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia is \u201cvery encouraged\u201d by the approach that US President Donald Trump has taken on regional issues, said a senior Saudi cabinet minister. &#8220;We are very encouraged by the position the Trump administration has taken,&#8221; Khaled al-Falih, minister of energy, industry and mineral resources, told AFP on the sidelines of summits between the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}