{"id":196617,"date":"2025-10-21T18:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/21\/mbs-surfing-a-wave-of-popularity-that-will-need-economic-growth-in-order-to-endure-fmr-ambassador-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:14:03","slug":"mbs-surfing-a-wave-of-popularity-that-will-need-economic-growth-in-order-to-endure-fmr-ambassador-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/21\/mbs-surfing-a-wave-of-popularity-that-will-need-economic-growth-in-order-to-endure-fmr-ambassador-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MBS &lsquo;surfing a wave of popularity&rsquo; that will need economic growth in order to endure: fmr ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Speaking with FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Sharon Gaffney, former UK ambassador to Saudi Arabia John Jenkins says that, under the leadership of Mohammed bin Salman, the country is on a drive to normalise relations not only with Israel, but also with Iran and work towards a more economically integrated Middle East. He also stresses that MBS has been surfing a wave of popularity, whose endurance will rely economic development, reform and growth.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Sharon Gaffney, former UK ambassador to Saudi Arabia John Jenkins says that, under the leadership of Mohammed bin Salman, the country is on a drive to normalise relations not only with Israel, but also with Iran and work towards a more economically integrated Middle East. He also stresses that MBS has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-196617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}