Saudis 'eye Pakistani nukes' to face Iran

[DelhiDareDevil]

Middle East is probably the most failed part of the World, if they didnt have oil, they would be a poor region.

 

[StormShadow]

The article is just a bit of mischief, nonsense.

Sodies are interested in a nuclear capability or at least hiring one, but why would anyone risk a nuclear confrontation over the House of Sodies? Anyway, Iran is just so far ahead in terms of being a actual nation state, I just don't think they take the Sodies seriously.

Hmm...maybe. But you just cannot write off the issue easily. Coz the thought of being a nuclear power is so tempting and Uncle Sam got the Saudi's back. IF this setts off alarm bells in Tehran, I guess Pakistan will be further knitting itself into another major problem!!

 

[SyrianChristianPatriot]

No, lets go back in time a little, none of this would have happened if Arabs didn't betray Turks.

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Elaborate what you mean by the above?

lets go back in time a little, and see what would have happened if the begalis didnt betray pakistan LMAO, the PAST is THE PAST DUDE.

 

[Meengla]

Read his post what he is trying to tell, stop personal attack, I will report you for personal attack specially on Turkish members on this forum.

Well, you may want to report some of our own Pakistani members here who use 'Arbi' and 'Sodies' etc while profess to not hate the 'average' Arab.

I have no love for these dictators in the Arab countries but they are not the whole picture of the Arab world. Some of us Pakistanis fail to see this and are on an insulting rampage.

It does not serve Pakistan's strategic interests to annoy the Arab world or to annoy the Iranian neighbors. We should strive very hard to try to bring them together. Insulting 'average Arab' does not help. The insulting viewpoint does not reflect the Pakistani official or public opinion.

 

[Mosamania]

No, lets go back in time a little, none of this would have happened if Arabs didn't betray Turks.

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Elaborate what you mean by the above?

First of all I am half Turkish and an attack on either the ottoman empire or the current Saudi Arabia offends me. I read about both my ancestors thourghly and I came to the conclusion that the country I live had nothing to do with it. First growing up I was pissed at the Saudi government believing what most of you believe it certainly looks this way from the outside but this is not true.

Second of all you generalize an entire race....that is bad.

 

[Desert Fox]

lets go back in time a little, and see what would have happened if the begalis didnt betray pakistan LMAO, the PAST is THE PAST DUDE.

Nice, so now your trying to avoid my argument, that in itself is a sign of weakness.

 

[lem34]

Some people will believe anything as long as it is anti-Saudi.

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SilentNinja I never thought you would be that kind of person.........

Listen mosa I am getting fed up of you whining about us hating arabs but at the same time being an appologist for that ugly fat fxxxs known as the saudi royal family. For the last time we hate the regime but have nothing against joe average arabi including you

 

[longbrained]

I think if Saddam had never come to power and he had not been supported by Gulf nations then the situation was not as bad as today. This guy really damaged Islam beyond belief. He invaded Iran and in the process killed a million mostly Iranians. So it is understandable that Iranians have not yet forgotten what happened to them. Then he went to invade Kuwait and thus bring American boots to the region permanently. Saudi Arabi has to reassure Iran that Saddam and their support of him was a mistake and even apologize for it and thus cool the situation. Things can get really better if king just utters two sentence on this issue.

 

[muse]

Hmm...maybe. But you just cannot write off the issue easily. Coz the thought of being a nuclear power is so tempting and Uncle Sam got the Saudi's back. IF this setts off alarm bells in Tehran, I guess Pakistan will be further knitting itself into another major problem!!

Sodies will never leave Uncle Sam - not unless they have a death wish --- Iran are a nation state, Arabia is a just a territory, Iran has a constitution, and representative government and citizenship, Arabia is a kingdom in which the rulers and their subject depend on foreign powers to support them and keep them in power - as long as these facts remain, Sodies will always be in uncle Sam's back pocket.

But what of those Pakistanis who may think that they can extract a bit of change from the Sodie by offering the Sodie a nuclear umbrella? -- Thus far, for all their faults and warts and corruption, neither the Pakistan armed forces nor the God forsaken political parties and politicians, at least thus far, have had this idea as a serious consideration. Could things change? Sure, most anything is subject to change.

 

[Veeru]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia has been beefing up its military links with Pakistan to counter Iran's expansionist plans and this reportedly includes acquiring atomic arms from the only Muslim nuclear power or its pledge of nuclear cover.

Pakistan has become a front-line state for Sunni Islam and is being positioned by its leaders, particularly in the powerful military and intelligence establishments, as a bulwark against Shiite Iran and its proxies.

Increasingly, Pakistan is rushing to the defense of Saudi Arabia, with whom it has a long had discreet security links. It is reported to have put two army divisions on standby for deployment to Saudi Arabia if the kingdom is threatened by Iran or the pro-democracy uprisings sweeping the Arab world.

It is even reported to be prepared to provide Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons if threatened by Iran. In return, it has been promised Saudi Arabian oil and treasure.

The Saudis have portrayed the roiling rivalry with the Iranians as a new, menacing chapter of the 1,300-year-old struggle between Sunni and Shiite Islam.

"The stakes are enormous," says Bruce Riedel, a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist.

"Pakistan has the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world. It will soon surpass the United Kingdom as the fifth-largest nuclear arsenal. It is the sixth-largest country in the world in terms of population," Riedel wrote in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel.

"It will soon surpass Indonesia as the country with the largest Muslim population."

The Saudis have long had close relations with Pakistan and there have been persistent reports that they, and other Persian Gulf states, have funded Islamabad's nuclear arms program for decades.

It is widely held in the Middle East that if Iran does produce nuclear weapons Pakistan will provide the Saudis with weapons from Islamabad's stockpile.

The Saudis have had close links with Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb who provided nuclear expertise to Iran, Libya and North Korea until he was exposed in 2003.

The Pakistanis insist Khan, a revered national hero in his homeland, was acting on his own. But it is generally accepted that his "nuclear supermarket" couldn't have functioned without official approval.

Khan has admitted visiting Saudi Arabia as many as 50 times over the years and hosted Saudi officials visiting Pakistan several times.

"Given these connections, including persistent reports that the Saudis helped finance Pakistan's nuclear program, the kingdom's proximity to Iran, and its concern about the rise of (Shiite) transnationalism, Saudi Arabia is included on most analysts' list of countries likely to consider nuclear weapons as a security hedge if Iran acquires them," the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London observed in a 2006 analysis.

Concerns about Saudi plans to buy ready-made nuclear weapons, rather than go through the lengthy and verifiable process of developing their own, were raised in June 1994.

A Saudi defector, Mohammed Khilewi, the No. 2 official in the Saudi mission to the United Nations in New York, claimed Riyadh had paid up to $5 billion to Saddam Hussein to build it a nuclear weapon.

Khilewi, an expert in nuclear proliferation who was the Saudi delegate to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, had produced 13,000 documents to support his claim the kingdom engaged in a secret 20-year effort to acquire nuclear weapons, first with Iraq, which Riyadh backed in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, and then with Pakistan.

Khilewi's documents showed that Riyadh helped bankroll Pakistan's clandestine nuclear project and signed a pact that in the event Saudi Arabia was attacked with nuclear weapons, Islamabad would respond against the aggressor with its own nuclear arms.

The Wall Street Journal and Britain's Guardian daily said a leading Saudi royal, Prince Turki al-Faisal, warned U.S. and British military commanders meeting outside London June 8 that if Tehran didn't curtail its nuclear program, Riyadh would seek nuclear weapons of its own.

Iranian acquisition of nuclear arms, the prince said, "would compel Saudi Arabia … to pursue policies which could lead to untold and possibly dramatic consequences."

Turki, who headed Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Directorate in 1977-2001, didn't spell out what those consequences might be but a senior official in Riyadh observed, "We cannot live in a situation where Iran has nuclear weapons and we don't.

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Saudis 'eye Pakistani nukes' to face Iran - UPI.com

What's sunni Islam?????????????

So now 2 types of Islam ????????

 

[RockyX]

Assad has killed so much of innocent people. Still, Iran is supporting. why ? because Assad is Shia ??

Syria - 25% are minorities (Shias/Alawite/Christans and Assad who is Shia and is leader of minorities.). Iran (A shia majority country) supporting another Shia majority country Bahrain and Assad.

All are Shias Vs Sunnis, or All co-incident ?

or other reason ?? Sorry, If i am wrong. I am no expert.

 

[SyrianChristianPatriot]

Nice, so now your trying to avoid my argument, that in itself is a sign of weakness.

Are you Neo-ottoman or something the past is the past dude I have stated , during ww1 the European powers saw a minimal amount of Arab nationalism and they used that to there benefit, Europe Craved up the former ottoman empire into their colonies to divide and conquer, I regret what happened to it I both Liked and disliked. it would have collapsed just like the USSR.

 

[RockyX]

What's sunni Islam?????????????

So now 2 types of Islam ????????

It is very old and common thing. I think you are not aware. it's lengthy topic.

 

[Donatello]

This is all non-sense propaganda.........Pakistan is on good terms with both.......and can mediate if necessary......nukes are not the answer......a big no no.

This is not a couple thousand soldiers Pakistan is sending to Saudi Arabia....but Nuclear killing machines.......i wouldn't trust the Saudis with that.....

 

[SyrianChristianPatriot]

Didn't know Pakistani's loved the ottoman empire so much for the LAST TIME it would have collapsed just like the USSR for God Sake, Nationalism, WW1, Ottoman Society was backwards, the Young Turks tried to reform it but they could not, it would have collapsed. can you understand that Slient Ninja it would have collapsed just like the USSR.