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Saudi Foreign Minister Claims Iran Responsible for 'Attack Against the World'

Any loans to Iran or engagement by the international community represent "appeasement," Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir claimed, accusing Iran of aggressive behaviour.

Iran's recent warnings to Saudi Arabia are "ridiculous" and "laughable," al-Jubeir told CNBC amid ongoing investigations in Saudi Arabia, who suspects Iran to be responsible for a major attack on its oil facilities. He spoke out after Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said in an interview Friday that he hoped to avoid conflict, but that Iran was prepared for "all-out war" in the event of an attack by Saudi or US forces, asking whether Saudi Arabia was ready to fight "to the last American soldier."

"This is not the first time Iran's foreign minister has said something ridiculous and frankly laughable," al-Jubeir told CNBC's Hadley Gamble in Riyadh on Saturday. "The attack that Iran conducted was an attack against the whole world, not just Saudi Arabia. And now they're trying to justify it, they're trying to find ways to create divides."

A lot of drama but with no proof forthcoming.

The minister stressed that Saudi Arabia, who was criticized for having failed to effectively counter the drone and missile attacks, was responsible for its own defences, while stressing the international community's role in reining in what he called Iran's "aggressive behaviour."

"It is our responsibility to protect our borders, our people, our infrastructure — but the world also has responsibility to make sure Iran isn't allowed to get away with murder, to ensure freedom of navigation in the Gulf and the Arabian Sea so global energy supply isn't disrupted," he said.

He also criticized the trade mechanism that has been developing in Germany and France to bypass US sanctions as an example of "appeasement," arguing that it will only condone the country's behaviour.

Both the US and Saudi Arabia didn't take any retaliatory action against Iran, although on Friday the Pentagon announced that it will deploy additional US troops and missile defence equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami, reacted to the news by warning that any country attacking Iran will become the "main battlefield." Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, for his part, warned that the Iranian military would down all drones violating the country's airspace.

The minister added that Iran had been "aggressive" for 40 years, accusing Tehran of sending militias to Syria, Iraq and Yemen, as well as "destroying Lebanon through Hezbollah."

Houthis Warn Saudi Arabia of More Damaging Attacks If Riyadh Continues Military Action

Ansar Allah militants, also known as Houthis, who seized power in northern Yemen, warned Saudi Arabia of new, more damaging attacks on the country's vital facilities if Riyadh continues military action against Houthis-controlled territories in Yemen.

On Friday, Houthis said they were halting drone attacks against Saudi Arabia and expected the Saudi authorities to stop military actions against Yemen as a reciprocal move.

"With halting of their aggression and shelling, our army will also stop missile strikes and the use of drones in remote territories of Saudi Arabia. Against the backdrop of the ongoing shelling, blockade and aggression, our strikes will become more painful, deadly and destructive, will affect even more remote areas, and there will be no red lines for us then," the movement's leader Abdul-Malik Houthi told Al-Masira TV channel.

Iran's President Vows To Present Security Plan To UN

Iranian President Hassan Rohani has said his country will present a plan for securing the Persian Gulf "with the help of other countries in the region" to the United Nations, citing threats to the region and the oil industry from foreign forces.

Rohani was speaking on Iranian television on September 22 at the start of weeklong commemorations in Iran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War -- full of military parades and other official events scheduled to show off Iranian military prowess -- and ahead of an expected appearance at this week's UN General Assembly.

Rohani said that Iran would "extend the hand of friendship and brotherhood" to Persian Gulf states and was "even ready to forgive their past mistakes."

"Those who want to link the region's incidents to the Islamic Republic of Iran are lying like their past lies that have been revealed," Rohani said, according to AP. "If they are truthful and really seek security in the region, they must not send weapons, fighter jets, bombs, and dangerous arms to the region."

"Foreign forces can cause problems and insecurity for our people and for our region," he added in the speech to Iran's 81 million people.

The Iranian president also pledged that Iran will not allow anyone to violate its borders and offered a "hand of friendship and brotherhood" toward regional cooperation.

Later on September 22, Reuters, citing Swedish TV, quoted the Swedish owner of a British-flagged tanker seized along with its crew by Iran in July as saying that he had been told that the vessel, the Stena Impero, might be released "within a few hours."

U.S. President Donald Trump on September 20 authorized a "moderate" bolstering of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates following the September 14 attack on a crucial Saudi oil-processing plant.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper called the mission "defensive in nature" and said the Saudis and Emirates had requested assistance.

Iran has denied involvement in the Saudi bombing and warned the United States that any attack would lead to an "all-out war."

In his September 22 speech, Rohani told foreign powers to "stay away" from the Persian Gulf and suggested their presence was making the region "the site of an arms race."

"Your presence has always brought pain and misery for the region," Rohani said, according to AFP. "The farther you keep yourselves from our region and our nations, the more security there will be for our region."

Talk has dissipated of a possible meeting between Trump and Rohani on the sidelines of the 74th UN General Assembly that kicks off in New York on September 24.

Washington this week imposed a fresh round of sanctions on Iran, including on its central bank and its sovereign-wealth fund.

Describing the measures as "the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country," Trump on September 20 signaled that he's not inclined to authorize an immediate military action on Iran in response to the Saudi attack.

Speaking in the Oval Office ahead of a meeting with his national security team, Trump said he believed showing restraint "shows far more strength" and he wants to avoid an all-out war.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement that "Iran's brazen attack against Saudi Arabia is unacceptable," and that the United States "will continue its maximum pressure campaign against Iran's repressive regime."

The top commander for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on September 21 that his forces had carried out "war exercises and are ready for any scenario."

On September 22, the commander of Iran's navy, Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi, was quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency as saying the country's defensive might was "at its highest possible level" and the military was "ready to defend [its] marine borders," Reuters reported.

"In case of any miscalculation and aggression by the enemy, [the navy], along with other armed forces of the country, will give the most crushing reaction in the shortest time possible," the agency quoted Khanzadi as saying.

Many people have called the Yemeni conflict a proxy war between Sunni Muslim-majority Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite-led Iran.

Iran-backed Huthi rebels, who captured the capital and other parts of Yemen in 2014, have been fighting against a Saudi-led coalition that supports Yemen's internationally recognized government in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and created a humanitarian nightmare for millions more.

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths on September 21 said Huthi rebels' pledge that they were halting all attacks on Saudi Arabia could help end the four-year-long civil war in that Gulf of Aden country.

WATCH: Iranian President Hassan Rohani has attended a military parade starting the Sacred Defense Week -- the country's annual commemorations of the outbreak of war with Iraq in 1980. While Rohani inspected the September 22 display of troops and equipment in the capital, Tehran, a naval parade took place in the port of Bandar Abbas.

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Schweizer said:

"Hunter Biden, in a sense, went around the world and cashed in on his father's access. Hunter Biden was getting $83,000 a month from this Ukrainian energy company where he had no background."

"So the immediate question becomes, he's not selling his expertise — because he has none in this field — what is he getting paid for? That is the issue...I think Ukraine needs to investigate it, but also the U.S. Department of Justice, because let's remember, Ukraine is a terribly corrupt country — it's been plagued with that for a long time — and this is something that's too serious, we can't just leave it to Ukrainian prosecutors to look into."

"There's no reporting of the fact that the vice president's son was going around the world — to Ukraine, to China, there are financial transactions involving Kazakh oligarchs, there's money going from Swiss bank accounts to the vice president's son — and ask me, [or] ask a lot of people — do we really want to have a country where it becomes acceptable and commonplace for this kind of behavior to take place? And I think the answer is, 'No.'"

"Again the question is, what was [Hunter Biden] being paid for? These entities were not giving the money away. They were paying Hunter Biden for something. He's not selling his expertise, so what exactly was he selling? And that's what needs to be investigated."

No news media figures hosting Democrat events marketed as "presidential debates" have, thus far, asked Joe Biden about Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings. If you change the name from Hunter Biden to Don Jr. or Eric Trump, I think you would have an entirely different tone by the media and by the Congress, and that's a shame, [because] it should be consistent with whoever's doing it.

Politics or law could have been part of Giuliani's motive, and neither would be illegal. But there is a missing part of the story that the American public needs in order to assess what really happened: Giuliani's contact with Zelensky adviser and attorney Andrei Yermak this summer was encouraged and facilitated by the U.S. State Department.

Giuliani didn't initiate it. A senior U.S. diplomat contacted him in July and asked for permission to connect Yermak with him. Then, Giuliani met in early August with Yermak on neutral ground — in Spain — before reporting back to State everything that occurred at the meeting.

That debriefing occurred Aug. 11 by phone with two senior U.S. diplomats, one with responsibility for Ukraine and the other with responsibility for the European Union, according to electronic communications records I reviewed and interviews I conducted.

According to interviews with more than a dozen Ukrainian and U.S. officials, Ukraine's government under recently departed President Petro Poroshenko and, now, Zelensky has been trying since summer 2018 to hand over evidence about the conduct of Americans they believe might be involved in violations of U.S. law during the Obama years.

Ukrainian officials also are discussing privately the possibility of creating a parliamentary committee to assemble the evidence and formally send it to the U.S. Congress, after failed attempts to get the Department of Justice's attention.

Biden...pointing fingers at Donald Trump:

"You should be asking him the question: why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader?" Biden asked. "This appears to be an overwhelming abuse of power." He then dismissed the question about Hunter and Ukraine, saying "everybody who's looked at it said there's nothing there," and urged the reporter to ask "the right question" instead.

The allegations were followed by a string of bombshell reports, that suggested that the US president had repeatedly pressured Zelensky into investigating an allegedly corrupt scheme in the country that had involved Biden's son, who is 49. Those reports were met with outrage from the Democrats, who branded the scandal a "constitutional crisis" and renewed their calls for the impeachment of Trump. Biden Senior, for his part, urged the US President to release a full transcript of the conversation with Zelensky.

But he didn't stop there; he also called Trump a "serial abuser" of power who is trying to use "smear" tactics, fearing the Democrats might beat him in next year's race for the White House.

Trump, who's been vocally dismissive of Biden's chances of beating him in 2020, has brushed the whole Zelensky story off as "political hack job," repeatedly attacking the "fake news" media. He also attacked Biden in a Twitter rant on Saturday.

"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, want to stay as far away as possible from the Joe Biden demand that the Ukrainian Government fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son, or they won't get a very large amount of U.S. money, so they fabricate a story about me and a perfectly fine and routine conversation I had with the new President of the Ukraine," Trump wrote in his own onslaught.

President Donald Trump is being roasted for "pressuring" Ukraine to get dirt on Joe Biden over past meddling sins. Did the same people cry murder when Trump's aide Paul Manafort was torpedoed by the 'black ledger' leak from Kiev?

This week dedicated Russiagaters had a short yet intensive thrill ride, after it was revealed that a whistleblower had complained about President Donald Trump having an inappropriate phone conversation with a foreign leader. The gotcha moment soon passed as sources of various media outlets claimed that the foreign leader was not Vladimir Putin of Russia but rather Volodymyr Zelensky, the freshly elected leader of Ukraine.

So Trump, his detractors believe, pressured Zelensky to get dirt on the man who is likely to be his Democratic rival in next year's presidential election. Trump has denied it, tweeting on Saturday that "nothing was said that was in any way wrong" between the two. Kiev officials seem to deny it too, with Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko telling the media he knows "what the conversation was about" and that he thinks "there was no pressure."

There are serious questions about how reliable this leaked ledger was in the first place and how extensive the conspiracy was. The two Ukrainian officials may have acted alone, or on behalf of senior figures in their government wishing to score some points with the perceived future leader in Washington. There are claims of some coordination with people in DC, or rather, the DNC.

Whichever the case, one thing is clear: what the Kiev court described was a case of foreign interference in the American election. And when it came out, Trump critics somehow didn't stampede to denounce it. Which brings us to the partisan logic gripping the US right now: there is "good meddling" and "bad meddling,""illegal" dirt-digging and one "for the greater good," as well as "impeachable" allegations of corruption - and those you can boast about.

"He'll use every element of his abusive power and every element of [his] presidency to try to do something to smear me. Everybody looked at this, and everybody said there's nothing there. Ask the right question!" Biden fumed on Saturday, after a reporter dared to ask about Hunter and Ukraine.

Ask the right question indeed.

As more pieces fall into place it becomes evident, once again, that the US media blew another hit piece on President Trump. The latest overly hyped Ukrainian scandal just blew up in their face.

For over two year The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on Ukrainian collusion with the Hillary Clinton campaign. For the past six months TGP has been reporting on Joe Biden's criminal acts in Ukraine.

According to John Solomon it was the Ukrainians that initiated contact with the Trump administration and it was the State Department that encouraged Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to meet with a top Ukrainian official in July in Spain.

So the alleged far left "whistleblower" blew the story and the liberal media pounced on it anyway.

John Solomon at The Hill reported:

The coverage suggests Giuliani reached out to new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's team this summer solely because he wanted to get dirt on possible Trump 2020 challenger Joe Biden and his son Hunter's business dealings in that country.

Politics or law could have been part of Giuliani's motive, and neither would be illegal.

But there is a missing part of the story that the American public needs in order to assess what really happened: Giuliani's contact with Zelensky adviser and attorney Andrei Yermak this summer was encouraged and facilitated by the U.S. State Department.

Giuliani didn't initiate it. A senior U.S. diplomat contacted him in July and asked for permission to connect Yermak with him.

Then, Giuliani met in early August with Yermak on neutral ground — in Spain — before reporting back to State everything that occurred at the meeting.

That debriefing occurred Aug. 11 by phone with two senior U.S. diplomats, one with responsibility for Ukraine and the other with responsibility for the European Union, according to electronic communications records I reviewed and interviews I conducted.

When asked on Friday, Giuliani confirmed to me that the State Department asked him to take the Yermak meeting and that he did, in fact, apprise U.S. officials every step of the way.

"I didn't even know who he (Yermak) really was, but they vouched for him. They actually urged me to talk to him because they said he seemed like an honest broker," Giuliani told me. "I reported back to them (the two State officials) what my conversations with Yermak were about. All of this was done at the request of the State Department."

So, rather than just a political opposition research operation, Giuliani's contacts were part of a diplomatic effort by the State Department to grow trust with the new Ukrainian president, Zelensky, a former television comic making his first foray into politics and diplomacy.

And not only did the Ukrainians initiate contact with the Trump administration but they were blocked from traveling to the US by the US Embassy in Kiev.

According to interviews with more than a dozen Ukrainian and U.S. officials, Ukraine's government under recently departed President Petro Poroshenko and, now, Zelensky has been trying since summer 2018 to hand over evidence about the conduct of Americans they believe might be involved in violations of U.S. law during the Obama years.

The Ukrainians say their efforts to get their allegations to U.S. authorities were thwarted first by the U.S. embassy in Kiev, which failed to issue timely visas allowing them to visit America.

Then the Ukrainians hired a former U.S. attorney — not Giuliani — to hand-deliver the evidence of wrongdoing to the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York, but the federal prosecutors never responded.

© UnknownU.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich a Trump-hater appointed by Obama in 2016.

[Marie Yovanovich] was US ambassador to Ukraine during the 2016 election when the Ukrainian government was colluding with the DNC and Hillary Campaign to undermine the US presidential election.

Starting in 2018 Yovanovich denied Ukrainian officials visas to enter the United States to hand over evidence of Obama administration misconduct to Trump administration officials.

US Ambassador Yovanovich, an Obama appointee, was removed from her post in Ukraine early in May 2019.

Corrupt Ambassador Yovanovich was fired by the Trump administration in May 2019 when all of the Ukrainian collusion with the DNC came to light.

It is telling that far left Democrat lawmakers Steny Hoyer and Eliot Engels were most upset with Ambassador Yovanovitch's removal.

Via Foreign Policy magazine. Now, those lawmakers are bringing their concerns into the public. "The White House's outrageous decision to recall her is a political hit job and the latest in this Administration's campaign against career State Department personnel," said Democratic Reps. Steny Hoyer, House majority leader, and Eliot Engel, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in a joint statement made public Tuesday. "It's clear that this decision was politically motivated, as allies of President Trump had joined foreign actors in lobbying for the Ambassador's dismissal."

If the media had a brain (they apparently do not) they should have taken a look at the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998. This statute applies to the following circumstances where "urgent concerns" are identified by members of the intelligence community:

- a serious or flagrant problem, abuse, violation of law or Executive order, or deficiency relating to the funding, administration, or operations of an intelligence activity involving classified information, but does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters;

- A false statement to Congress, or a willful withholding from Congress, on an issue of material fact relating to the funding, administration, or operation of an intelligence activity; or

- An action constituting reprisal or threat of reprisal in response to an employee's reporting an urgent concern.

President Trump talking to a foreign leader DOES NOT fall under this act. That is why this complaint is not being treated as a legitimate complaint. President Trump has every right to raise the issue of Joe Biden's corrupt activities while performing duties as the U.S. Vice President with the leader of a country that not only was implicated in the act but was threatened. We do not have to wonder if this is true. Slow Joe Biden bragged about it during an appearance in 2018.

Asking whether or not a country is going to pursue a corruption/bribery investigation of Hunter Biden, which was derailed by his father, according to his father, then that does not qualify as a whistleblower complaint.