{"id":1772363,"date":"2022-12-12T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772363"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:48:39","slug":"saudi-arabia-says-all-bets-are-off-if-iran-obtains-a-nuclear-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-arabia-says-all-bets-are-off-if-iran-obtains-a-nuclear-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Says \u201cAll Bets Are Off\u201d If Iran Obtains a Nuclear Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsaudi-arabia-says-all-bets-are-off-if-iran-obtains-a-nuclear-weapon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772363&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/75755b0bb1e14d83aeb8f82e1e427668\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>DUBAI (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia&#8217;s foreign minister said on Sunday that Iran&#8217;s Gulf Arab neighbours would act to shore up their security if Tehran were to obtain nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Indirect U.S.-Iranian talks to salvage a 2015 nuclear pact between global powers and Iran, which Washington exited in 2018, stalled in September. The U.N. nuclear chief has voiced concern over a recent announcement by Tehran that it was boosting enrichment capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Iran gets an operational nuclear weapon, all bets are off,&#8221; Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said in an on-stage interview at the World Policy Conference in Abu Dhabi when asked about such a scenario.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in a very dangerous space in the region&#8230;you can expect that regional states will certainly look towards how they can ensure their own security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear talks have stalled with Western powers accusing Iran of raising unreasonable demands, and focus shifting to the Russia-Ukraine war as well as domestic unrest in Iran over the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.<\/p>\n<p>Though Riyadh remained &#8220;sceptical&#8221; about the Iran nuclear deal, Prince Faisal said it supported efforts to revive the pact &#8220;on condition that it be a starting point, not an end point&#8221; for a stronger deal with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab states have pressed for a stronger agreement that addresses their concerns about Shi&#8217;ite Iran&#8217;s missiles and drones programme and network of regional proxies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The signs right now are not very positive unfortunately,&#8221; Prince Faisal said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hear from the Iranians that they have no interest in a nuclear weapons programme, it would be very comforting to be able to believe that. We need more assurance on that level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran says its nuclear technology is solely for civil purposes.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Emirati official said on Saturday that there was an opportunity to revisit &#8220;the whole concept&#8221; of the nuclear pact given the current spotlight on Tehran&#8217;s weapons with Western states accusing Russia of using Iranian drones to attack targets in Ukraine. Iran and Russia deny the charges.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ghaida Ghantous; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia&#8217;s foreign minister said on Sunday that Iran&#8217;s Gulf Arab neighbours would act to shore up their security if Tehran were to obtain nuclear weapons.Indirect U.S.-Iranian talks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1772366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7589,5364,8104,5458,3823,4639,8103,5960,3819,6259,8105],"class_list":["post-1772363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-all","tag-arabia","tag-bets","tag-bongino","tag-iran","tag-nuclear","tag-obtains","tag-off","tag-report","tag-saudi","tag-weapon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}