{"id":139297,"date":"2025-11-18T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/139297\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:08:07","slug":"trump-says-he-will-sell-f-35-jets-to-saudi-arabia-on-eve-of-crown-princes-us-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/139297\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he will sell F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia on eve of crown prince’s US visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By&nbspEuronews\n<\/p>\n

\n Published on
\n 18\/11\/2025 – 6:38 GMT+1\n <\/p>\n

On the eve of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s arrival to the US, President Donald Trump announced on Monday his plan to sell US-made F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, a decision despite some concerns surrounding the sale from within the administration. <\/p>\n

\u201cI will say that we will be doing that,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House, “We’ll be selling F-35s”.<\/p>\n

In a potential multibillion-dollar deal, Riyadh wants to buy as many as 48 US-made jets. Through the deal, Saudi Arabia is seeking to strengthen its security in the face of threats from countries such as Iran and militias across the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Beyond the sale of the jets, more deals are expected to be announced during the visit itself, according to a senior Trump administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity. <\/p>\n

The official said Saudi Arabia is expected to announce a multibillion-dollar investment in US artificial intelligence infrastructure, adding that a new cooperation between the two in the civil nuclear energy sector is also on the table.<\/p>\n

The sale of the figher jets would mark a significant policy shift, potentially altering the balance of power in the Middle East. <\/p>\n

As a result, the Republican administration expressed concerns over potentially upsetting Israel\u2019s qualitative military edge over its neighbours, particularly at a time when Trump is depending on Israeli support of his peace plan for Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sale comes at a time in which Trump is trying to persuade Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalise diplomatic ties. On Friday, Trump said he hoped Saudi Arabia would be joining the Abraham Accords, a pact that formalised commercial and diplomatic ties between Israel and a trio of Arab nations. <\/p>\n

However, Saudi Arabia has made it clear that the guarantee of a Palestinian state is a pre-requisite for it to join the pact, something Israel has continuously opposed. <\/p>\n

In addition, another long-standing concern by the administration is that the sale could lead to China gaining access to US technology, as Beijing has close ties to both the UAE and Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&nbspEuronews Published on 18\/11\/2025 – 6:38 GMT+1 On the eve of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s arrival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1657,81363,42,86368,14176,47,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-139297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-china","tag-f-35","tag-headlines","tag-iran-saudi-arabia","tag-israel-iran-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}