Bipartisan group of senators introduce bill to stop Trump from allowing drone sales to Saudis, fearing an arms race with Iran

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• Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy and a bipartisan group of his colleagues just introduced legislation aiming to block President Donald Trump from allowing the sale of armed drones to the Saudis.
• The senators are concerned selling weaponized drones to the Saudis could exacerbate the Yemen conflict and fuel an arms race with Iran.
• "Do we really want a Middle East in which Iranian and Saudi drones are flying all over the region? That sounds like a nightmare," Murphy told Insider.
• The Trump administration in late July announced it would bypass a 1987 arms control pact in order to expand weaponized drone sales. 

A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced legislation to block the Trump administration from allowing the sale of weaponized drones to countries like Saudi Arabia, fearing it would exacerbate the devastating Yemen conflict while fueling an arms race with Iran. 

"We are loading up our Gulf allies with weapons, and that has the consequence of fueling an arms race in the region. Every time we sell something to the Saudis, the Iranians go and try to obtain a version of the same thing," Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a top lawmaker on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and sponsor of the bill, told Insider. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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