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Last Updated:November 19, 2025, 08:04 IST
Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said that "it's very painful for me" to see Prince Mohammed visit Washington.
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. (IMAGE: REUTERS FILE)
The widow of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in 2018 by Saudi agents, said it was “very painful" that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the United States on Tuesday.
US President Donald Trump hosted a dinner at the White House for the Saudi prince’s first visit to Washington since Khashoggi was killed inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.
The meeting between the pair covered key regional and economic issues, including Saudi Arabia’s potential accession to the Abraham Accords and massive commercial investments in the United States. Discussions also included the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Riyadh.
Talking to CNN, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said that “it’s very painful for me" to see Prince Mohammed visit Washington.
“It will be better if Jamal was here and receiving the crown prince by himself, and meet him and share with him his vision and mission and all his ideas," she said in the interview aired Monday.
Before his death, “Jamal actually was waiting for an invitation from the crown prince and wished to have the space to be heard," she added. “He had good ideas for his country."
Hanan Elatr Kashoggi said she had written to Trump asking for his help in reaching a financial settlement with Prince Mohammed.
The killing “destroyed my life", she said, adding, “I hope they look at the American values of human rights and (democracy)" besides any deal and selling weapons.
“There is something missing," she added, pointing to the lack of “real justice."
The killing of Jamal Khashoggi — a US resident and critic of the Saudi regime — had chilled relations between the two countries after US intelligence suggested that Prince Mohammed approved the operation to murder him, an allegation which Saudi authorities deny.
His dismembered body has never been found and Prince Mohammed was never among those sanctioned by Washington.
Following an opaque trial in Saudi Arabia, five Saudis were sentenced to death and three others to prison terms. The death sentences have since been commuted.
(With agency inputs)
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November 19, 2025, 08:03 IST
News world 'Khashoggi's Killing Destroyed My Life': Widow Expresses Pain As Saudi Prince Meets Trump
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