The Tehran Foreign Policy Studies Quarterly
 

Khashoggi's Murder; a Project Which Backfired

Hadi Mohammadi
(Political analyst and West Asia strategic issues researcher)

This aggressive and antagonistic realism of Trump and bin Salman is their new behavioral model in politics and global relations; however, it is both unexpected and surprising for the world and brings about unforeseen costs. The nature of the House of Saud and bin Salman's character has been in line with the history of Wahhabism in Arabian Peninsula, and now, with Khashoggi's murder and their policy of dodging the issue by escaping forward, they have to deal with exten-sive global reactions, especially from the public opinion and West supporters. This brutal act, which is, by the way, very normal for bin Salman and Saudi regime, happened under such inter-nal, regional and international circumstances that would undoubtedly bring destructive conse-quences for the future of Saudi regime, bin Salman's prince-hood, regional and international al-lies. The present article attempts to both review Khashoggi's murder, and then investigate the re-vealing and uncontrollable consequences and repercussions and the negative aspects of these consequences for different actors, internal, regional, and international arenas and study the chances this disaster gives to some independent countries.
This savage and barbarous policy had a very opposite and undesirable effect than was intended by bin Salman; Trump will also have to pay for his wrong uncalculated approaches.

 


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