On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's King Salman ousted his nephew as crown prince and installed Mohammed, his son, as heir to the throne.
The Prime Minister also conveyed his most earnest wishes for the peace, stability and prosperity of the Kingdom and people of Saudi Arabia to Mohammad Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
A video (below) released on Saudi state television shows the Prince Mohammed kissing the hand of the former crown prince, who was stripped of all titles following the change of succession.
The all-but-certain takeover of the throne by Mohammed bin Salman awards vast powers to a young prince who has taken a hard-line with Iran and who has led a war in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians. As well as diversifying the economy, the plans include pushing for women to have a bigger economic role and the partial privatization of state oil firm Saudi Aramco - reforms that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The White House said Trump discussed with him "the priority of cutting off all support for terrorists and extremists, as well as how to resolve the ongoing dispute with Qatar".
The king's move is being seen as setting Saudi policy for decades, removing the challenge of uncertainty. The nation's top counter-terrorism official, Bin Nayef was credited with keeping the kingdom stable and relatively safe from Islamic State militants.
The series of decrees also amended Article V of the kingdom's statute of ruling, stipulating that, from now on, only the sons and grandsons of the founding King Faisal Al Saud can be kings and crown princes.
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"Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, said this is the first time Saudi Arabia has such a young prospective king".
Prince Mohammed bin Salman overhauled the kingdom's economy away from its reliance on oil.
The move is likely to rattle Iran's leadership, which has been critical of comments by Prince Mohammed last month that the "battle" should be taken into Iran.Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's new interior minister, until now a little-known 33-year-old law graduate, replaces his veteran uncle as security chief.
Professor Bernard Haykel, an expert on Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, said the king's decision was aimed at avoiding a power struggle by setting out the line of succession clearly.
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia The retroactive reinstatement of Saudi Arabian civil servants' allowances will cost the government about 5 or 6 billion riyals ($1.3 billion to $1.6 billion), the finance ministry said on Thursday.
Iran, Saudi Arabia's maain rival for regional influence, called Prince Mohammed's appointment a "soft coup".
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