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Saudi 'may buy nuclear arms from Pakistan'

MANAMA, May 18, 2015

Saudi Arabia has taken a ‘strategic decision’ to acquire nuclear weapons from Pakistan, senior US officials told the Sunday Times.

Sunni Arab states are increasingly concerned over a deal with Iran backed by US President Barack Obama, which they fear could allow Tehran to develop a nuclear bomb, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication, quoting the newspaper.

Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal told a recent conference in South Korea: "Whatever the Iranians have, we will have, too."

A senior British military officer also told the paper that Western military leaders "all assume the Saudis have made the decision to go nuclear."

"The fear is that other Middle Eastern powers - Turkey and Egypt - may feel compelled to do the same and we will see a new, even more dangerous, arms race."

Saudi Arabia has supported Islamabad's nuclear programme over the past three decades, providing Pakistan's government with billions of dollars of subsidised oil. - TradeArabia News Service




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