Saudi Arabia would not ‘sit idly by’ if West fails with Iran

[BLACKEAGLE]

Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UK said on Friday that the kingdom would not “sit idly by” if world powers fail to halt Iran’s nuclear program, calling the Obama administration’s “rush” to embrace Tehran as “incomprehensible.”

“We are not going to sit idly by and receive a threat there and not think seriously how we can best defend our country and our region,” Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, who is the Saudi ambassador to the UK and King Abdullah’s nephew, told British newspaper The Times.

“Let’s just leave it there, all options are available,” he said, referring to possible defense plans made in response to Iran developing its nuclear capability.

Prince Mohammed was speaking as negotiators from six world powers are in talks with their Iranian counterparts in Geneva in an attempt to get Tehran to commit to downgrading its nuclear program in return for several sanctions being lifted.

While both the Saudi and Israeli government are keen to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons, Prince Mohammed said that Israel should also have to show that its nuclear program is peaceful.

“The whole region will suffer from producing these weapons,” said the ambassador.

“It happens ¬everyone is talking about Iran, but ¬Israel also has to prove that their program is a peaceful program, as we are demanding from the Iranians,” he added.

No such concept
In order to ensure security in the Middle East, the international community should push Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty, Prince Mohammed told The Times.

“The idea of introducing these weapons in the region is unacceptable to us and this concept of total security is a dream, there is no such thing… The total security of one country is the insecurity of another — that has to be understood,” he said.

Last month, Saudi Arabia rejected a seat on the United Nations Security Council - a position it would have occupied for the first time - partly due to frustrations of the U.N.’s failure to act on the Syrian conflict.

“We feel we have been let down and hence this is why we are asserting ourselves, making the message loud and clear,” said Prince Mohammed.

While Saudi Arabia is known to support certain Syrian rebel groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, he stated that the kingdom’s goals were not to fund jihadists with the aim of turning the country into an Islamic nation.

“Our aim is very clear: [a] Sunni, Shia or Christian president is not the ¬issue. The issue is that the President of Syria is brutalizing his own people,” he said.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...-not-sit-idly-by-if-West-fails-with-Iran.html

 

[Aamna14]

No offence but why just Iran is made out to be an issue Israel has nukes and very well can be a threat to the sovereignty of various countries at present so why not focus on that.

 

[Ceylal]

What can really do KSA to IRAN?...Piss on her hoping to fall on her @ss and brake an arm

Nothing can stop Iran from having her "official" nuclear bomb. It is well if KSA accommodate to the fact of a nuclear Iran as the US and the rest of world( I mean the one's who count) are about to do, or get her own from the Pakistani shelf.

 

[farhan_9909]

I still wonder how the hell the Arab require western help in regards to iran.

KSA is a much bigger country with even bigger GDP and resources,Air force among the top 5-6 in the world and army also equipt with the best possible equipments.Trained with the best in the world and a per capita more than twice of Iran,with much more and a much better global image and support from around the world and they still can't handle iran on their own.

If iran doesnt stop its nuclear program.Start your own.Don't care about the west as you have the excuse to have your own nuclear program.

Or end the difference and a sign defence pacts against iran.

 

[Falcon29]

No offence but why just Iran is made out to be an issue Israel has nukes and very well can be a threat to the sovereignty of various countries at present so why not focus on that.

Because they know no results will be reached diplomatically or militarily. Even if they had a vote in the UN recently to let the international world inspect nuclear sites the mysterious western nations will veto it and that actually did happen recently.

UN nuclear meeting rejects Arab push for Israel to join weapons pact — RT News

Here's a link Amnah. @Aamna14

 

[M. Sarmad]

The Saudi ambassador worries about the Syrians and the saudi govt. can send Jihadis for their help But they cant do the same for Palestinians (where the oppressors are Non Muslims) ... They are bothered By Iranian Nukes but are okay with Israeli Nukes !! Hypocrisy ? or something even worse ?

 

[iranigirl2]

I support a none-nuclear middle east which also includes Israel.

 

[Serpentine]

If only they had this huge tongue for Israel.
We have signed NPT and it's our absolute right to have a civilian nuclear program, Saudi Arabia has never been in calculations, not even now.
They can do anything they want, they can continue to buy the Congress with oil money, they can team up with Israel (seems already happening), they can buy nukes from Pakistan (highly unlikely since Pakistan would be placed under international sanctions). KSA can do anything it wants, because it's not being seen by Iran in the nuclear issue. That's the important point.

Saudi should join hand with Israel to bomb Iran if required. They should wage a war and destroy Iran if it tries to acquire a nuclear bomb. Iran cannot do much because if they will do anything silly against Saudi Arabia then few missiles from us will flatten them.

It seems Call of Duty game series has been quite successful in developing countries.

 

[ResurgentIran]

Iran has in the past offered Saudi Arabia nuclear cooperation and nuclear academic and material exchange, in attempt to improve relations.
But the issue Saudi Arabia have with Iran is not nukes.
Their regional strategic doctrine is such that requires America to have bad relations with Iran.
What they really fear is not nukes, but a regional order in which the US would not seek to isolate Iran but rather deal with it as it is and include Iran in a regional security arcitechture.

These noises are an attempt to raise the cost of a US-Iran detente and lessening of tension. Saudi Arabia needs a US that is confrontatial with Iran, otherwise they dont have the same maneuveribility and would have to revise their national security strategy.
Its not that they want a deal that halt Iran nuclear program. They dont want ANY deal under ANY circumstances, period.
Even a theoretical deal that would say Iran gives up enrichment. They Saudis would find that equally disturbing, because there is something else at play other than the nuclear thing. Its a strategic problem.
So to repeat its not nukes that is the issue for Saudi Arabia. Nor is it really the IRI either, to be honest.
Its Iran, as a country. Full stop.

 

[BATMAN]

@BLACK EAGLE @al-Hasani @Yzd Khalifa

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

I've got a few things to say, if you don't mind.

Iran has in the past offered Saudi Arabia nuclear cooperation and nuclear academic and material exchange

Iran hasn't offered anything to us over the last ten years, except a participation in the '' The Protectors of The Skies '' which was hold last year. The other proposal was student-exchange program in Police and Criminal studies, which was also rejected by the late hard-liner MoI Minister.

I can speak with the authority on that

Their regional strategic doctrine is such that requires America to have bad relations with Iran.

No, the dispute KSA has with Iran is based on two levels:

1- Religious Establishments

2- Racial rivalry

If Iran develops healthier relations with the US, it will be in the best interests of KSA, but the supreme leader hates us to his fullest.

What they really fear is not nukes, but a regional order in which the US would not seek to isolate Iran but rather deal with it as it is and include Iran in a regional security arcitechture.

A containment option will be the best to the Saudis, but so far, the US isn't willing to do it. KSA's concerns over Iran's nuclear weapon is on a militarily basis that if they manage to obtain a nuclear weapon, SOME factions among the Iranian ranking elites might act with impunity.

Does KSA view Iran as a rational actor? Yes.
Do they trust them? No, herein the problem lies.

Saudi Arabia needs a US that is confrontatial with Iran, otherwise they dont have the same maneuveribility and would have to revise their national security strategy.

The Saudis are applying it whilst dealing with Iran on their own, In Bahrain, Yemen, and elsewhere.

Iran has in the past offered Saudi Arabia nuclear cooperation and nuclear academic and material exchange, in attempt to improve relations.
But the issue Saudi Arabia have with Iran is not nukes.
Their regional strategic doctrine is such that requires America to have bad relations with Iran.
What they really fear is not nukes, but a regional order in which the US would not seek to isolate Iran but rather deal with it as it is and include Iran in a regional security arcitechture.

These noises are an attempt to raise the cost of a US-Iran detente and lessening of tension. Saudi Arabia needs a US that is confrontatial with Iran, otherwise they dont have the same maneuveribility and would have to revise their national security strategy.
Its not that they want a deal that halt Iran nuclear program. They dont want ANY deal under ANY circumstances, period.
Even a theoretical deal that would say Iran gives up enrichment. They Saudis would find that equally disturbing, because there is something else at play other than the nuclear thing. Its a strategic problem.
So to repeat its not nukes that is the issue for Saudi Arabia. Nor is it really the IRI either, to be honest.
Its Iran, as a country. Full stop.

 

[AUz]

Instead of crying, Why don't Arabs join Persians to pursue nuclear technology, and hence balance the strategic imbalance in Middle-East?

Persians and Arabs need to co-operate with each other for the betterment of region, progress of Islam globally, and for peace in the world.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

This is what is going to happen eventually.

Instead of crying, Why don't Arabs join Persians to pursue nuclear technology, and hence balance the strategic imbalance in Middle-East?

Persians and Arabs need to co-operate with each other for the betterment of region, progress of Islam globally, and for peace in the world.

An intra-faith dialogue is badly needed these days, I salute you on it.



I'm surprised to see you having no rooms for trolls anymore...

 

[ResurgentIran]

Iran hasn't offered anything to us over the last ten years, except a participation in the '' The Protectors of The Skies '' which was hold last year. The other proposal was student-exchange program in Police and Criminal studies, which was also rejected by the late hard-liner MoI Minister.

I can speak with the authority on that

Yes, the Iranian Parlamentiary speaker Larijani offered it. But via a meeting with former Egyptian president Mubarak, who also acted as intermediary for GCC.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Yes, the Iranian Parlamentiary speaker Larijani offered it. But via a meeting with former Egyptian president Mubarak, who also acted as intermediary for GCC.

Dude, I assure you that we haven't recived such proposal.