US, Saudi Arabia Reach Deal on Nuclear Power
The agreement sets up a 30-year partnership and gives U.S. firms preferred treatment as Trump says it depends on Saudi normalization with Israel.
- On July 22, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement; Trump announced on Thursday the "deal is off" if Saudi Arabia does not join the Abraham Accords.
- Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman signed a 30-year nuclear partnership that notably excludes requirements for the IAEA's Additional Protocol and immediate bans on domestic uranium enrichment.
- Former Israeli consul Yaki Dayan warned the agreement could spark a regional arms race, cautioning that if Saudi Arabia receives independent enrichment capabilities, Turkey and Egypt will demand identical rights.
- Trump's political advisers warn that focusing entirely on the campaign against Iran risks losing the House of Representatives and the Senate, pressuring him toward alternative diplomatic solutions.
- Saudi Arabia maintains that establishing formal diplomatic ties with Israel requires a credible pathway toward an "independent, sovereign Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders and East Jerusalem as its capital," though prospects remain at historic lows.
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What Washington’s Nuclear Gamble with Saudi Means
By: Salman Rafi SheikhThe US-Saudi nuclear agreement is not really about reactors. It’s about rules and Washington deciding its own rules are negotiable. That decision will ripple through the region soon after the first Saudi reactor breaks ground. Riyadh is calling this a breakthrough. Washington is calling it a win. Both are missing, or hiding, the point. The deal’s importance is not in how many reactors Saudi Arabia builds. It is in what the …
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US, Saudi Arabia reach deal on nuclear power
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia reached an agreement on civil nuclear power, the U.S. Energy Department said Wednesday, a deal that allows the kingdom to build nuclear reactors using American technology and enrich uranium.
The historic civil nuclear agreement signed between the US and Saudi Arabia represents a geopolitical turning point that aims to reconfigure alliances in a Middle East, a region once again involved in a war that continues to hit the international economy and the scene of major fundamental changes in recent years. The pact, structured as an Agreement 123 under the U.S. Atomic Energy Act, gives Riyadh access to U.S. nuclear technology and opens th…
A new agreement by which the United States would invest in Saudi Arabia so that the allied country would achieve peaceful nuclear capabilities raised concern about a possible militarization of the region, in which several regional actors would try to develop weapons of mass destruction. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman publicly stated that his country would seek to obtain nuclear weapons if Iran developed its own nuclear arsenal – and he is not …
Former consul warns US-Saudi nuclear deal may lead to arms race, Trump caught in 'escalation trap'
Yaki Dayan, the former Israeli consul in Los Angeles, warned that the recent US-Saudi nuclear agreement could lead to other powers in the region pushing for their own enrichment deals.
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