Saudi Arabia: Israel weighs up Riyadh’s nuclear options


Issue 998 - 31 Jul 2015 | 2 minute read

The Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) concluded that the P5+1 group’s nuclear deal with Iran was “not good news for Saudi Arabia, because the agreement means that Iran, Riyadh’s main ideological and geostrategic rival, has received international recognition as a nuclear threshold state”. “In view of the international seal of approval for uranium enrichment in Iran, the possibility that the kingdom will take a similar route, even against American opposition, cannot be ruled out,” INSS analyst Yoel Guzansky wrote in a paper published on 22 July, Saudi Arabia and the Nuclear Agreement with Iran*.

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