Saudi Arabia Pledges Nuclear Bomb if Iran Develops One

Lost in the mix today, but a very important story. Especially considering the possibility of a coming war with Iran.



Saudi Arabia has warned that it will develop its own nuclear weapon if regional rival Iran acquires one.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told US network CBS News his country did not want to acquire nuclear weapons.

"But without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we would follow suit as soon as possible," he added.

Iran limited its nuclear programme under a 2015 deal with several world powers - but US President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw from it.

Saudi Arabia and Iran have long been rivals in the Middle East. Each is dominated by different branches of Islam - Sunni for Saudi Arabia, Shia for Iran - and they have historically supported opposing powers in regional conflicts.

In recent years, tensions have escalated over the wars in Syria and Yemen.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43419673

i starting think that maybe US policy is to take each threat out 1 at a time. take out iran then they take out saudi arabia and then pakistan. if that case it make sense for them to in meantime use Saudi and gulf help to take out Iran.
 
Yeah, you just exposed how little you know about history. The decline of the Middle East didn't start until around the 1300s and, even after that, the region underwent a revival until the West undermined liberal reforms.

Even one thousand years ago, the Middle East was just as advanced as Europe.

And, within the last century, the Middle East's major cities of Kabul, Tehran, and Baghdad were more advanced than anywhere other than the metropolises of the United States.
The meme that the Middle East has always been a shit hole can only be sustained with incredible ignorance of the region before the 2nd World War.

Even on the issue of women's rights the Islamic world was ahead of the West until, at the earliest, the mid 19th century when the first wave feminist movement started to form and gain momentum. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a wife of an English ambassador to the Ottomans, had this to say about Turkish women relative to their English counterparts.
'Tis very easy to see they have more Liberty than we have
and she elaborates on why this is
Neither have they much to apprehend from the resentment of their Husbands, those Ladys that are rich having all their money in their own hands, which they take with 'em upon a divorce with an addition which he is oblig’d to give 'em. Upon the whole, I look upon the Turkish women as the only free people in the Empire
Western women were only allowed control over their personal property, such as clothing and jewelry, but did not control private property which was either in their father's or husband's hands whereas Muslim women were allowed to control their own private property such as cash, commodities, and commercial/residential real estate. And beyond that the inheritance and marriage laws meant that a women, merely by living her life and reaching common milestones, came into possession of of some form of property throughout her life.

So the conservatives who like to thumb their nose at Muslims on the basis of women's rights can only do so because the early feminists were able to push back against the conservative forces of yesteryear.
 
Yeah, you just exposed how little you know about history. The decline of the Middle East didn't start until around the 1300s and, even after that, the region underwent a revival until the West undermined liberal reforms.

Even one thousand years ago, the Middle East was just as advanced as Europe.

And, within the last century, the Middle East's major cities of Kabul, Tehran, and Baghdad were more advanced than anywhere other than the metropolises of the United States.
Until Islam took over.
 
i starting think that maybe US policy is to take each threat out 1 at a time. take out iran then they take out saudi arabia and then pakistan. if that case it make sense for them to in meantime use Saudi and gulf help to take out Iran.

You're out of your mind if you think the US is going to do a thing to Saudi Arabia.

From Democrat to Republican, many US (hell, western in general) politicians are cucks to the Saudi's.
 
You're out of your mind if you think the US is going to do a thing to Saudi Arabia.

From Democrat to Republican, many US (hell, western in general) politicians are cucks to the Saudi's.

i am saying that the intelligence and military elites may want to. they can turn direction against country so could the President if wanted to.
 
We gotta get off this planet if all of the middle east wants nuclear weapons. The most unstable countries on earth wanting the most powerful weapon know to man is not a good thing.
 
We gotta get off this planet if all of the middle east wants nuclear weapons. The most unstable countries on earth wanting the most powerful weapon know to man is not a good thing.

"The most unstable countries on Earth..."

Argh...this forum can be so frustrating.
 
And yet they're still incompetent and show little to no signs of industriousness or innovation and the country still relies primarily on foreign workers for its high skilled jobs.

They should go the UAE route. They could be the Mecca of tourism in the Middle East.

:D
 
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