King Salman

Donald Trump made a startling admission in a speech to his supporters in Iowa earlier this week.
The US president continued his unique brand of personal communication with the American electorate by holding a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesday.
Near the conclusion of his speech to an enthusiastic crowd, Trump turned to discussion of his first foreign tour, which saw him meeting with the heads of 54 Muslim countries in the Saudi capital of Riyadh:

Israeli Intelligence & Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sept. 4, 2016. (AP/Ronen Zvulun)
Senior Israeli ministers have called on Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel.
Speaking at the Herzliya conference on Thursday, Israel’s intelligence and transportation minister Yisrael Katz asked King Salman to invite Prime Minister Netanyahu to Riyadh and to send newly appointed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Tel Aviv in return.

Intelligence minister Yisrael Katz has also invited King Salman to send the new crown prince to Israel to establish mutual ties.

(MEE) — Senior Israeli ministers have called on Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel.

(ANTIMEDIA) — According to Reuters, a royal decree has relieved Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef of his post as Crown Prince, as well as his role as First Deputy Prime Minister. He has been replaced by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, King Salman’s 31-year-old son. The promotion confirms the king’s son as the next ruler of the kingdom over Mohammed bin Nayef, the king’s nephew.

This week on the New World Next Week: King Salman rejiggers the Saudi succession plan; things heat up in Syria once again as the US shoots down a Syrian jet; and (who would have guessed it?) CRISPR genetic mutations are already happening.

This week on the New World Next Week: King Salman rejiggers the Saudi succession plan; things heat up in Syria once again as the US shoots down a Syrian jet; and (who would have guessed it?) CRISPR genetic mutations are already happening.

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There is trouble in oil paradise. It seems that all the elements of an already explosive geopolitical concoction are getting vigorously stirred.

King Salman of Saudi Arabia has now appointed his 31 year old son Prince Mohammed bin Salman his Crown Prince, ousting his nephew, former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who had previously supervised Saudi Arabia’s security forces, and who is credited by some people with defeating the challenge within Saudi Arabia that extreme Wahhabi terrorists connected to Al-Qaeda posed to the ruling family.

King Salman, the leader of the Saudi regime has changed the succession to the throne bypassing now former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in favour of newly appointed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Salman is widely seen as the man responsible for Saudi’s increasingly radical and destabilising foreign policy moves including the Saudi war on Yemen and the increased covert funding to Salafist terror groups. Many also claim that he is the architect of the current boycott of fellow Gulf Cooperation Council member state Qatar.