{"id":381736,"date":"2018-10-20T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T09:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-lawmakers-skeptical-of-saudi-claim-on-khashoggi\/"},"modified":"2018-10-20T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T09:40:56","slug":"presstv-us-lawmakers-skeptical-of-saudi-claim-on-khashoggi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-lawmakers-skeptical-of-saudi-claim-on-khashoggi\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US lawmakers skeptical of Saudi claim on Khashoggi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Several US lawmakers in Congress say they are skeptical of Saudi Arabia\u2019s explanation for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after Riyadh claimed he died in a &#8220;fistfight&#8221; in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, has been sharply critical of Saudi Arabia after the disappearance of Khashoggi on October 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say that I am skeptical of the new Saudi narrative about Mr. Khashoggi is an understatement,\u201d Graham said on Twitter on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>During a televised interview earlier this week, Graham said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman &#8220;has got to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>US Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, said Saudi Arabia&#8217;s claim that Khashoggi was &#8220;killed while brawling with a team of more than a dozen dispatched from Saudi Arabia is not credible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was &#8220;fighting for his life with people sent to capture or kill him,&#8221; said Schiff, a senior member of the House of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/20\/577526\/US-senators-Jamal-Khashoggi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several US lawmakers in Congress say they are skeptical of Saudi Arabia\u2019s explanation for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after Riyadh claimed he died in a &#8220;fistfight&#8221; in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. US Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, has been sharply critical of Saudi Arabia after the disappearance of [&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-381736","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\/381736","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=381736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}