FxWirePro: Daily Commodity Tracker - 21st March, 2022 
No response from the United States before the mid-term election in the United States over the killing of Washington Post journalist at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2nd.
Mr. Khashoggi was a Saudi-born journalist and a permanent resident at the United States vanished on October 2nd after his visit to the Saudi consulate over divorce documents from his previous marriage, while his fiancé waited outside. According to her, he never came out. Security surveillance camera also supported her claim.
However, for two weeks Saudi Arabia tried to press that Jamal Khashoggi left the consulate after 20 minutes of entering but under intense international outcry and pressure from allies, Saudi Arabia finally claimed that the journalist was killed in a fist-fight after officials asked him to return to his home country to get all the necessary papers.
At the same time, Turkey outraged by the killing on its soil claimed to have an audio tape of the killing and CCTV footages that in reality, Khashoggi was brutally murdered and the Kingdom preplanned it, which contradicted the Saudi account of an accidental killing.
Finally, Saudi Arabia accepted last week that the killing was premeditated.
President Trump who called the incident the worst cover-up has promised to get to the bottom of it and if necessary put sanctions on its closest neighbor in the Middle East. The United States has already imposed visa restriction on several Saudi officials allegedly involved with the murder.
It was reported last week that the CIA director Gina Haspel has returned from her Istanbul trip after conducting an investigation of the incident and after reportedly hearing the alleged ‘audio tape’ of Khashoggi’s murder. Despite that, the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that there is still not enough evidence to move ahead with harsher punishments such as sanctions but he also promised that the United States would respond to the killing just as the President promised.
