Arabic → English transcript

Some people bring up the claim that Saudi Arabia is in a state of dependence

on the United States

Given the results of this visit, is the situation still as they claim?

Let's go back to 2022 or 2023

There was an incident

It turned out that Saudi Arabia does not rely fully on the United States

News broke that

former U.S. president Joe Biden

Despite the Kingdom's hostility, he asked Saudi Arabia to lower oil prices

and not raise them until after the midterm elections

in Congress

And of course

the White House denied this report

For the first time Saudi Arabia issued a statement

a very strong one from

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, citing an official source in the country

and revealed the truth about the contact that took place

and that, indeed, the United States had requested

a cut in oil prices or that they not be raised until after the midterm elections

If it were directly, strongly, and 100 percent dependent

on the United States, it would not have issued this statement

If it relied entirely on the United States of America

it would have surrendered to what former President Barack Obama did

when he disabled radars, targets, and the intelligence related to the war in Yemen

If it relied 100% on the United States of America

Saudi Arabia did not comply with every dictate imposed on it

In 2010, 2011, 2012

and what followed the Arab Spring and earlier events

and later, including the entry into Bahrain

And, I mean,

let's say,

the quelling of the unrest that occurred

in Bahrain at the request of

the Bahraini government and His Majesty the King of Bahrain

If the Kingdom depended

and carried out all of this and cut off oil in the year

1973, I think that's, let's say, an exaggeration

That's a big exaggeration. There is a strategic partnership and there is

an alliance, and there is political realism

that the United States of America is the strongest

country in the world, the number one country

It is the country that was able

by a visible meeting

between seven countries to block

financial transactions

from Russia and to remove SWIFT

the SWIFT system entirely

Just a few video calls

the G7

is the country that always threatens China

on customs tariffs and on exports and imports

and comes and says that I can

operate in the United States of America

No — Saudi Arabia has political realism

it says I am a partner and a strategic ally

we do not abandon the United States of America

but we do not rely on it directly

and for that I want to localize military industries

part of the defense agreement is the transfer of military technologies

and the localization of the military industry in Saudi Arabia

and helping Saudi Arabia to

let's say, strengthen these industries

gradually you will have

your own advanced industries

advanced enough to spare you from

anyone at all