Are Saudi Arabia and Egypt Nuclear Powers?
Dated 29/4/2006
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The Iran issue is turning into the perfect excuse for Saudi Arabia to declare its Nuclear assests and expand its Islamic Nuclear Umbrella.
'To lay the groundwork for an alternative Middle East nuclear bloc hinging on Saudi Arabia and Egypt, i.e. a rival Arab nuclear program. Iran was meant to be brought up short by the discovery that if it goes all the way to an N- bomb, so too will its Arab opposite numbers. This race carries the extreme potential of pitting Sunni and Shiite nuclear powers on a collision course.'
Tehran was undaunted when US officials confronted its negotiators in secret talks with the steps taken by Saudi Arabia and Egypt to launch their own nuclear weapons programs as a deterrent to the Iranian threat. Iran
