now to washington where the white house has confirmed joe biden will go on his first middle east tour as us president. it ll take place in july. he ll visit israel, then the west bank, and then he ll go to saudi arabia, where he ll meet the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman. it s the first meeting since the murder of the dissident saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. in 2018 he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul, and was murdered. us intelligence concluded that the crown prince approved the operation. as presidential candidate on the campaign trail, president biden had this to say about saudi arabia. we were not going to infect sell more weapons to them, we were going to make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are. now he s visiting the country. and the reason is because the us needs oil. here s barbara plett usher. we know they want to talk about
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impose new sanks. but they may be the first at risk from the u.s. reimposing sanctions as it relates to oil trade. i remember covering this that getting china in particular on board to the sanctions to agree to not buy iranian oil was a big deal at the time. china not an enemy but not a u.s. partner. and not really because it was in china s oil interests. you want to buy oil wherever you can. china needs oil, the economy is growing. the u.s. got china on board for that. what do they do now, start buying and say listen it s in our interests now. do they stay in? it is a big question. it s important to note that when the president said the u.s. was going to reinstate the sanctions against iran, he also said the u.s. would impose sanctions against countries that help iran in its nuclear program. that seems to be specifically targeted. it does. it does. this is the thing. so if you are a european company or a chinese company for that