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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
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Article English SA 2023-03-10
China-brokered Saudi–Iran agreement to restore diplomatic relations (Beijing), 10 March 2023
On 10 March 2023, after four days of talks in Beijing hosted and mediated by China, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced an agreement to restore diplomatic relations that had been severed for more than seven years. The two governments agreed to reopen their embassies and missions within a period not exceeding two months…
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Speech Arabic SA 2021-09-22
Saudi Arabia — King Salman's address to the 76th UN General Assembly, September 2021 (“The Kingdom speech”, English text)
The essence of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 is to achieve prosperity, build a better future, and create a leading economy as well as dynamic society engaged with the world. Five years since the inception of Vision 2030, we have made tremendous headway in supporting local industry, developing infrastructure, information…
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Speech Arabic SA 2019-05-30 Tier 3
King Salman bin Abdulaziz — Saudi monarchy doctrinal mosaic (charity-not-extremism 2002, Iran condemnation 2019)
From King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (b. 31 December 1935, 7th king of Saudi Arabia 23 January 2015 onward; Governor of Riyadh for 48 years before that; father of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; son of founder King Abdulaziz Al Saud): **On his decades-long Riyadh governorship** (Salman's signature…
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English SA 2018-10-17 Tier 1
Jamal Khashoggi — Washington Post columns 2017-2018 mosaic (anti-MBS critique, free expression, Yemen war, last column posthumous)
From Jamal Khashoggi (1958-2018, Saudi journalist, former editor-in-chief of Al-Watan and former advisor to Prince Turki bin Faisal; broke with the Saudi regime over MBS's repression of dissent and self-exiled to the US in 2017; murdered and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on or about 2 October 2018…
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Article English SA 2018-10-02
Killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, 2 October 2018
Jamal Khashoggi — a Washington Post columnist and prominent Saudi critic — was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by a team of Saudi agents. Saudi Arabia initially denied any knowledge of his fate, then acknowledged he had died inside the consulate, describing it as the…
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Interview English SA 2018-04-05
Mohammed bin Salman — TIME interview (during his April 2018 U.S. tour)
TIME: How long have you been thinking about doing this [tour], and what's your rationale behind this? Mohammed bin Salman: When I started to think about doing a tour, we had a plan for Saudi Arabia. […] The United States of America is one of our oldest allies in the whole world, and we are the oldest ally of the…
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Interview English SA 2017-10-14
Mohammed bin Salman — sourced verbatim quotes 2016-2022 (mosaic of policy statements from major interviews; English)
Speaker: Mohammed bin Salman, then Deputy Crown Prince and later Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Mosaic of sourced verbatim quotes assembled from major published interviews 2016-2022. All quotes cross-verified against the Wikiquote-cited primary sources. [On Saudi modernization — Guardian interview, 24 October…
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Speech Arabic SA 2017-03-05 Tier 3
Loujain al-Hathloul — Saudi women's-rights activist statements ("I will win. Not immediately, but definitely.")
From Loujain al-Hathloul (b. 1989, Saudi women's-rights activist, the primary public face of the campaign to lift the ban on women driving; first detained December 2014 for driving from the UAE into Saudi Arabia; arrested in the mass crackdown of 15 May 2018 — weeks before the formal lifting of the driving ban on 24…
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Speech Arabic SA 1965-03-28 Tier 3
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia — "Palestine more valuable than oil" doctrine + "our constitution is the Quran" (1964-1975)
From King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1906-1975, third king of Saudi Arabia 2 November 1964 — 25 March 1975; assassinated by his nephew Prince Faisal bin Musaid in Riyadh 25 March 1975; led Saudi Arabia through the 1967 Six-Day War, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and the 1973 oil embargo against the US and other states…