The Observer:
The idea that the US might sell state-of-the-art nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, potentially enabling Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reckless regime to build nuclear weapons, sounds so far-fetched as to be almost grotesque.
After all the near-hysterical American and Israeli warnings about the risk of Iran, the Saudis’ arch-rival, acquiring the bomb, surely even Donald Trump would balk at such breathtaking – and dangerous – hypocrisy?
Apparently not. According to a congressional inquiry, senior White House officials, retired generals and Trump’s close relatives and business cronies have been secretly pursuing a multibillion-dollar scheme to cut a nuclear deal with Riyadh.
The talks are said to be continuing, despite increased public scrutiny and legal advice that a technology transfer lacking strict conditions could contravene US law, breach international counter-proliferation safeguards, and fuel a nuclear arms race.
The inquiry’s interim findings, published last week by newly empowered Democrats on the House of Representatives’ oversight committee, were based in part on testimony from “multiple” whistleblowers, its authors said. They focus in particular on two high-profile figures – Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East envoy, and General Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser. Both have featured prominently in Robert Mueller’s almost completed federal probe into the Trump campaign’s dealings with Russia. The committee said it would urgently expand its inquiry “to determine whether the actions being pursued by the Trump administration are in the national security interests of the US or, rather, serve those who stand to gain financially”.
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How do the Brits know, if the talks are “secret?”
What “risks” are clear and to whom?
There's nothing wrong with nukie technology... Global nuclear disarmament is a must, starting with Israel.
thnx for unblocking me... knowing your short fuse, I'll try to behave myself...
GR follow the link.
Tvarich you cannot help it as it is your nature just like the scorpion and the frog. And let’s not fool ourselves the Akhoonds wanted a bomb, any Tokhmi bomb as North Korea.
Dual Containment did not work either. As for Israel diversion nobody falls for that .
fozolie,
I did follow the link. What should I do next?
I don’t know what the problem is. Saudi Arabia is not Iran. If the Brits know this secret, the Israelis must be in the know as well. And if Israel has nothing against such a deal, who am I to blow against the wind?
The author talks about people connected to Trump making money, if the deals go through. I would be surprised, if no one made any money.
He sounds sympathetic towards Iran. Or probably it is his disdain for the Arabs.
Sorry I can’t help you if you cannot see what is wrong with giving Saudis the technology. Mirror image of Es-hal-talabs who cannot see what would be wrong with the Akhoonds having the bomb.
It is a left wing paper so take his commentary with a pinch.