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eridani

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Tue May 19, 2015, 05:36 AM May 2015

Saudi Arabia Asking Pakistan for Nuclear Weapons, US Sources Say

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/30242-saudi-arabia-asking-pakistan-for-nuclear-weapons-us-sources-say

Saudi Arabia has been in discussion with Pakistan over the acquisition of a nuclear weapon, according to US sources, raising tensions over the country's longstanding regional rivalry with Iran.

“For the Saudis the moment has come,” an anonymous former US defense official told the UK’s Sunday Times.

“There has been a longstanding agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward.”

He denied “any actual weaponry has been transferred yet,” but warned that “the Saudis mean what they say and they will do what they say”.

Saudi Arabia has long regarded Iran's nuclear programme (which the country still insists is peaceful) with alarm and has insisted that it would attempt to match any military threat from the country.

“Whatever the Iranians have, we will have, too,” former Saudi intelligence head Prince Turki bin Faisal said last month at a conference held by the South Korean-based Asan Institute for Policy Studies, according to the New York Times, adding that any deal between Iran and the West over their nuclear programme “opens the door to nuclear proliferation, not closes it, as was the initial intention”.
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