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The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman has long been absent on the world stage but when he is preparing to mark five years as the leader of de facto, he finally came from cold.
Next month’s visit by US President Joe Biden will complete the 36 -year -old Prince’s international rehabilitation, which is widely launched during the 2018 Murder Journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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This is a victory that does not meet the requirements for Prince Mohammed, who has led his country on a rollercoaster journey since he was named his father’s heir Raja Salman, 86, on June 21, 2017.
And in a further sign of the relationship with improvements, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the crown prince would travel there next week on his first visit since Khashoggi’s murder.
In his time as an unofficial ruler of Saudi Arabia, the largest oil exporter in the world and the house of the two most sacred sites of Islam, “MBS” has liberalized many aspects of daily life while emphasizing strong control over others.
But his encouragement to change the conservative kingdom which is completely overshadowed by Khashoggi’s murder, an action that is so disgusting that Biden’s journey – routine steps for American leaders in the past – have triggered controversy.
Saudi agents killed and cut off -Cottle Khashoggi, insiders who became critics, at the Istanbul consulate in October 2018.
US intelligence concluded that Prince Mohammed “agreed” an operation to arrest or kill Khashoggi, the accusation he refused.
Following a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Erdogan Turkey, the planned meeting with Biden was the main validation of Prince Mohammed.
Washington is a kind of opposition center against SBM when it comes to public statements and official mobilization in the West,” said Yasmine Farouk of Endowment Carnegie for international peace.
This is what SBM wants to do to pass the last year and a half: meetings and pictures with Biden as partners,” said a diplomat based in Riyadh.
When he arrives, Biden will find Prince Mohammed’s cap almost everywhere. But no group is affected more than Saudi women.
Axing is famous about what women can wear and where they can go is the center of the new Saudi liberalization narrative.
Abaya Robes and Hijab Headscarves are now optional, women are no longer prohibited from concerts and sports events, and in 2018 they get the right to drive.
The kingdom has also relieved what is called the trusteeship rules, which means that women can now get a passport and travel abroad without the permission of male relatives.
In 2018, the authorities captured at least a dozen female activists, most of them were right before the prohibition of female riders was appointed.
This step was preceded by Clampdown who was about the prince and senior officials suspected of carrying out grafts or disloyalty, dozens were arrested in November 2017 at the Ritz-Carlton Luxury Hotel Riyadh.
Prince Mohammed “has combined his dramatic and comprehensive cultural, social and artistic revolution from top to bottom … with the concentration of power that is as politically dramatic,” said Hussein Ibish of the Arab Gulf State Institute in Washington.
Some of Prince Mohammed’s most striking policies have been played outside the border of his country.
Two months after his father, Raja Salman, rose the throne in 2015 and appointed Prince Mohammed’s defense minister, Riyadh gathered a coalition to intervene in Yemen with war.
The conflict between the Yemeni government supported by the Saudi and Huthi rebels who are in harmony with Iran have killed hundreds of thousands of people directly and indirectly and deliver millions of people to the threshold of hunger.
