Saudi Arabia's foreign minister and US secretary of state discuss bilateral relations, the strategic partnership between the two countries and the latest regional developments"
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, received a phone call from United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, on Friday. The call comes one day after Rubio speculated on a post-war Middle East, saying,
Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Iran
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"If you have a region in which you have a more stable Syria, a more stable Lebanon, where Hezbollah is not able to do the things it does on behalf of Iran, a weakened Iran who has now lost all these proxies"
Saudi Arabia and Israel deal
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"it now opens the door to things like a deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel, which would change the dynamic of the region"
Rubio continued, saying, this would make it "easier" to,
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1. resolve "some of these challenges that we face with the Palestinian question 2. and in particular with the Gaza question"
