Nuclear weapons fever in the Middle East

Wahhabis Go Nuclear — Literally. Saudi Arabia’s Bomb? By Pepe Escobar Global Research, May 24, 2015 Asia Times T he serious possibility of a nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 is only a few weeks away – on June 30.

So guess what the terminally paranoid House of Saud is up to: Lay their hands on a nuclear bomb to counteract the non-existent “Iranian bomb”, which Tehran, via Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, has consistently abhorred as un-Islamic, and wouldn’t have it anyway because of stringent inspections bound to be part of the final nuclear deal.

The proverbial “former Pentagon official” has leaked to a Rupert Murdoch paper that the House of Saud is bound to buy a ready-made nuclear bomb from Pakistan. The choice of media already offers a clue; Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is one of News Corporation’s leading shareholders.

The “why now?” concerning the leak is pretty obvious. Yet the whodunit is hazier territory.

Meanwhile, adding fuel to the jihadi fire, as the Wahhabis in Riyadh dream of going — literally — nuclear their faith brothers across “Syraq” are going figuratively nuclear, adding victory after victory on the ground; from the assault on Palmyra, the Silk Road-era jewel of the desert in Syria, to the fall of Ramadi in the former “triangle of death” in Iraq.

The “Iranian bomb” was never really an issue for successive U.S. administrations; only a convenient pretext to box in, harass, sanction and “isolate” the Islamic Republic, the former “gendarme” of the Gulf in the Shah era. The U.S. government always knew nuclear bombs can be bought on the black market; so whether Tehran could develop a nuclear weapon was irrelevant.

The House of Saud, for its part, may — and the operative concept is “may” — already have a bomb, for a long time now, to offset Israel. And they “may” have paid Islamabad for it. There is no conclusive proof.

What’s certain is that the — non-existent — “Iranian bomb” is where the House of Saud, other GCC minions and, crucially, Bibi Netanyahu’s extremist, fundamentalist Israeli government converge; they all consider it an “existential threat” to their survival………http://www.globalresearch.ca/wahhabis-go-nuclear-literally-saudi-arabias-bomb/5451435

May 25, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general

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There is nothing of substance in this article. It’s doesn’t make sense for Saudi Arabia to even want a bomb much less get it from Pakistan the most unstable government owning a bomb in the world. Iran isn’t interested in having a nuclear weapon at all. The only country in the region which is a total Renegade nuclear power is Israel which has never allowed IAEA inspections to their arsenal of nuclear bombs. YThey reprocess there in their bomb making and that’s not an issue is it? They do it and the whole world allows while ragging North Korea to death every time the do the least little thing. Go figure.
This article seems to me to be a piece of propaganda coming out of the Pentagon rather than a left leaning progressive web site on the issues. No sure what to make of it, other than the war drums pounding and another thing to keep people anxious for no reason.

Comment by steve nienhaus | May 25, 2015 | Reply