Saudi Arabia: Author and journalist Jamal Khashoggi does not represent us

He was quoted by the Saudi Press Agency on Friday November 18, an official at the Foreign Ministry source as saying that the Saudi writer Jamal Alkhahjqa "does not represent the state."

The source added that Khashoggi "does not represent the state in any capacity, and expressed views are personal and do not represent the positions of the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in any way."

Foreign Saudi statement comes after an interview with Khashoggi, during a seminar at the Washington Institute for "a Saudi concern win new US president Trump expected in the Middle East and his policy."

Khashoggi said: "The Trump Gahr Baadaute to Iran, but it also stands in a row (Syrian President) Bashar al-Assad, which enhances the end Iran's hegemony over the region. Thus, the Saudi rightly concern about Trump received the presidency."

Khashoggi said that the expectation that the positions of President Trump be different to a large extent on the positions of the candidate Trump is simply false hopes at best, and on Saudi Arabia to prepare for some surprises that may arise probably in the form of negative letters issued by Trump's management. "