Bahrain has dodged a bullet as Congress takes aim at the Gulf country's close ally Saudi Arabia.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., had hoped to block a pending arms sale to the tiny kingdom as a reprimand of the Saudi-led Arab coalition’s war against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels. But the vote overwhelmingly failed 77-21, with even some of Saudi Arabia’s harshest critics on Capitol Hill coming to Bahrain’s defense.
