These are deliveries to Israel, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, worth a total of eight billion dollars.
The weapons include air defense systems for Kuwait and Qatar, as well as laser-guided missiles for Qatar, the UAE and Israel, reports CNN.
Deliveries to Katra also include missiles for the American Patriot air defense system.
An April report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that America’s stockpile of Patriots had been significantly depleted by weeks of war with Iran.
In the statements of the State Department, it is stated that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio “determined and provided a detailed justification that there is a state of emergency that requires the immediate sale” of weapons to those countries, thereby justifying the bypassing of Congress in the sale, CNN explains.
As noted by the American network, this is not the first time that the administration of Donald Trump has called for urgency in order to speed up arms deliveries since the beginning of the conflict with Iran, reports Hina.
In early March, the State Department also made a decision to immediately approve the sale of 12,000 bombs to Israel without prior procedure in Congress, while later that month Rubio approved the expedited delivery of a multibillion-dollar arms package to the Emirates and Kuwait, as well as military equipment to Jordan.
(Vijesti.ba)
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