UK complicit in Saudi crimes in Middle East: Expert

Press TV has conducted an interview with Hafsa Kara-Mustapha, a journalist and Middle East expert in London, and Lawrence Korb, a member of the Center for American Progress in Washington, to discuss the security pact between Britain and Saudi Arabia.

Kara-Mustapha says it is interesting that the British government is so much “in collaboration” with the Saudi regime when it is in violation of many international regulations.

She also maintains that the collaboration between Britain and Saudi Arabia is indicative of a “complicity” in certain activities in the Middle East that are “very detrimental” to the region.

“Some of the things that have been happening in Yemen are blatantly war crimes, attacks on civilians, heavily populated civilian areas and such and we also know and we have many British high-ranking politicians including the leader of the opposition actually claiming that Saudi Arabia is very much funding terrorist organizations,” she says.

The expert further notes that the difference between the British government and the Saudi regime is that “Saudi Arabia acts in criminal ways within its own borders and outside whereas the British government actually leaves the criminal actions to outside its borders”.

Elsewhere in her remarks, Kara-Mustapha argues that the collaboration between Britain, the United States and Saudi Arabia will continue, adding that Washington and Riyadh are actually involved in the destruction and the division within the Middle East.

Korb, for his part, believes it would be significant to get Saudi support to defeat the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

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