{"id":380701,"date":"2018-10-12T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-saudi-relationship-on-the-line-senators\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T20:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T19:23:29","slug":"presstv-us-saudi-relationship-on-the-line-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-saudi-relationship-on-the-line-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US-Saudi relationship \u2018on the line\u2019: Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US Senators have warned President Donald Trump that ramping up pressure on the Saudi royal family over the disappearance of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi could endanger relations between Washington and Riyadh.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Khashoggi, a Virginia-based critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s policies, has been unaccounted for since October 2 when he visited the Saudi diplomatic mission in Istanbul to get paperwork for his marriage to his Turkish fianc\u00e9e.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Authorities in Turkey believe he died there at the hands of a &#8220;murder squad&#8221; flown from Riyadh to kill him and dispose of his body. His body was smuggled out, they say, perhaps in a diplomatic car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Top Republican senators expressed hope on Thursday that the Trump administration would heed their warning and act on the Senate\u2019s request for the White House to conduct a statutorily required investigation into Khashoggi\u2019s case or whether punitive measures, including sanctions, against the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/12\/576813\/US-Senators-Saudi-royal-family-Jamal-Khashoggi-Mohammed-bin-Salman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senators have warned President Donald Trump that ramping up pressure on the Saudi royal family over the disappearance of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi could endanger relations between Washington and Riyadh. Khashoggi, a Virginia-based critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s policies, has been unaccounted for since October 2 when he visited the Saudi [&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-380701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}