A report on Saudi Arabia–United States relations

U.S. President Donald Trump with the King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh, May 2017.

King Ibn Saud converses with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on board the USS Quincy, after the Yalta Conference in 1945.

President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon with their host, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, at the Mayflower Hotel in 1957

King Saud and John Kennedy meet at the king's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida in 1962

King Fahd with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Ivana and Donald Trump in 1985. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia supplied money and arms to the anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan.

U.S. President George W. Bush and Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in Crawford, Texas, April 25, 2002

Former Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in the White House.

Prince Mohammad bin Salman with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, D.C., June 13, 2016

Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his advisor Ahmad Asiri (blamed for Khashoggi's death) meeting U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, July 2016

Protesters against the U.S.-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen were led away handcuffed by New York police outside the U.S. mission to the UN on December 11, 2017

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Saudi Prince Khalid bin Salman, July 2021

Visa page from Saeed al-Ghamdi's Kingdom of Saudi Arabia passport recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site

15 out of 19 September 11 terrorists were Saudi Arabia nationals

Protest against U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, March 2018

Jamal Khashoggi (left) at a 2018 Project on Middle East Democracy forum in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, August 25, 2016

U.S. Navy has actively participated in the Saudi-led naval blockade of Yemen.

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with King Salman in Riyadh, January 2015

U.S. President Donald Trump, King Salman, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, May 2017

Protest against the war in Yemen in New York City on August 14, 2020

Bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States began in 1933 when full diplomatic relations were established and became formalized in the 1951 Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement.

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Rand Paul

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American physician and politician serving as the junior U.S. senator from Kentucky since 2011.

Paul speaking at a Tea Party rally in Hawesville, Kentucky, on November 21, 2009.

Paul greeting supporters at Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 1, 2010.

Paul being sworn in as a senator by Vice President Joe Biden, along with his family, in the Old Senate Chamber in the U.S. Capitol, January 2011.

Paul campaigning with his father, Ron Paul, for his 2012 presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, on August 10, 2011.

Paul speaking during filibuster on the Senate floor on March 6, 2013.

Paul at the 2019 Turning Point USA Winter Gala at Mar-a-Lago.

Paul speaking at a Turning Point USA event in 2020

Paul speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 14, 2013.

Paul speaking at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, October 2015.

Paul being interviewed by Jerry Doyle at Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) 2011 in Reno, Nevada, September 16, 2011.

Paul speaking with former U.S. Congressman Allen West.

Paul with his family on the Capitol steps.

Paul and his father Ron Paul at an event hosted in their honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C.

In April 2018, he again criticized the U.S.-Saudi Arabia alliance, highlighting that "Saudi Arabia has funded radical madrassas, teaching hatred of America throughout the world, and that Saudi Arabia also supplied arms to ISIS in the Syrian civil war."

Joe Biden

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American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States.

Results of the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware

Biden and his second wife, Jill, met in 1975 and married in 1977

Biden shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, 1984

Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill with President Bill Clinton in 1994

Senator Biden accompanies President Clinton and other officials to Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 1997

Biden addresses the press after meeting with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad in 2004.

Biden campaigns at a house party in Creston, Iowa, July 2007

Biden speaks at the August 23, 2008, vice presidential announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois

Biden being sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2009

President Obama congratulates Biden for his role in shaping the debt ceiling deal which led to the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Biden, Obama and the national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of the May 2011 mission to kill Osama bin Laden

Biden with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016

Biden with Vice President-elect Mike Pence on November 10, 2016

Biden with Barack Obama and Donald Trump, at the latter's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Biden at his presidential kickoff rally in Philadelphia, May 2019

Biden takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2021

Biden meeting with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office, June 7, 2021

Biden in a video conference with Vice President Harris and the U.S. National Security team, discussing the Fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021

Biden, UK prime minister Boris Johnson and UN secretary-general António Guterres at the opening ceremony of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021

Biden with Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Oval Office

Biden with refugees from Ukraine in Warsaw, March 2022

President Barack Obama and Biden talk with Xi Jinping, February 14, 2012

President Obama presents Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, January 12, 2017

Biden at a rally on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, February 2020

Biden and Ketanji Brown Jackson watching the U.S. Senate vote on her confirmation, April 2022.

Biden has pledged to end U.S. support for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen and to reevaluate the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia.

Lloyd Austin

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Retired United States Army four-star general who, since his appointment on January 22, 2021, has served as the 28th United States secretary of defense.

Austin in a meeting with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Lieutenant General David Barno, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2003

General Lloyd Austin, commander of United States Forces-Iraq with General James Mattis, commander of United States Central Command, during the United States Forces-Iraq end of mission ceremony on December 15, 2011. Both would later serve as Secretaries of Defense.

General Lloyd Austin with President Barack Obama at MacDill Air Force Base, September 17, 2014

General Lloyd Austin with Lieutenant General Charles Q. Brown Jr. during the Air Forces Central Command change of command ceremony at Shaw Air Force Base, June 29, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin with U.S. President Joe Biden at The Pentagon on February 10, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosts Saudi prince Khalid bin Salman at the Pentagon, July 6, 2021

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin with Commander of U.S. Forces Japan Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider at Yokota Air Force Base.

Austin meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on June 25, 2021

Austin during his tenure as Director of the Joint Staff in 2009.

Commander of Central Command General Lloyd Austin with Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Philip M. Breedlove during strategic dialogue meeting at the National War College, May 8, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at NATO headquarters in Brussels, April 14, 2021.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a visit to West Point Military Academy on May 22, 2021.

Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on April 24, 2022

On February 19, 2021, Austin spoke to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying that "We discussed the continued commitment to the 70-year US-Saudi security partnership, and I'm looking forward to working together to achieve regional security and stability."

Chris Murphy

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American lawyer, author, and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Connecticut since 2013.

Murphy campaigning for presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008

Ted Kennedy and Murphy at a Barack Obama rally in February 2008

Murphy speaks in favor of gun control in 2017

Murphy with Svoboda party leader Oleh Tyahnybok at Euromaidan in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 2013

In October 2018, Murphy wrote that if the reports of Jamal Khashoggi's murder are true, "it should represent a fundamental break" in Saudi Arabia–United States relations.