Pak Sahafat – The Hill website wrote that considering the role of Saudi Arabia in the killing of Yemenis and the execution of Saudis, now is the time for the Congress to hold Saudi Arabia responsible for the victims of the war in Yemen and the citizens of this country.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report, this American media wrote: A series of objections from Joe Biden’s government and the lack of enough votes did not allow the resolution of war powers in the Yemen war to be approved last week.
Biden had threatened to veto the passage of the resolution, which would effectively reduce Washington’s support for the Saudi war effort, a threat met with support from a number of Democrats.
The resolution, introduced by Bernie Sander, an independent senator from Vermont, was withdrawn in the face of strong opposition, including a veto threat from Biden.
Now Sanders has to postpone the re-presentation of this resolution until January 2023 and the inauguration of the Congress in which the Republicans hold the majority in the US House of Representatives and have a friendlier relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Hill wrote: Since the inauguration of Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman, Riyadh has been involved in the killing of more than 377,000 Yemenis and the execution of more than 523 Saudis.
President Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress have had numerous opportunities to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its role in these killings, but they continue to delay.
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This issue is contrary to the positions of the political party that criticized the relations of the former US President Donald Trump’s administration with Saudi Arabia.
Also, this opposition has meant violating the promises of Biden’s campaign to support human rights and treat Saudi Arabia as a “hated country”.
The report added: Saudi Arabia’s goals in Yemen are clear: empowering a puppet leader and tormenting any political opponent, even if he is a civilian. The Saudi-led coalition has launched a war in Yemen that only includes an air campaign and a blockade.
This war caused more than 17.6 million Yemenis to need food aid. In total, civilians make up more than 19,200 people killed or disabled in Yemen.
The annual index of the risk of arms sales in the Cato Institute (Cato), which evaluates the negative factors related to arms sales, including the dispersion, diversion and misuse of arms by their recipients, has identified Saudi Arabia as one of the 30 most dangerous countries for arms sales. Because the authorities of this country use it to suppress human rights and the level of government corruption in Saudi Arabia is high. There is also a risk of weapons falling into the hands of unscrupulous people.
The report also shows that weapons end up on the black market and end up in the hands of terrorists.
This is while Saudi Arabia has been the first buyer of American weapons for the past 13 years because three successive governments in this country have prioritized the profits from arms contracts over the defense of human rights.
Some radical people in America say that due to the absence of violence, there is no need for a war powers resolution or a reduction in arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The Sanders resolution only forces the Biden administration to stop supporting the Yemen war and has nothing to do with selling weapons to Saudi Arabia or forcing Saudi Arabia to stop the war.