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Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas reported that the Saudi media broadcasted a news item published by CNN that Saudi Arabia launched a missile program with the help of China, and Riyadh did not deny the news.
"The Gulf region has been witnessing an arms race for decades and has become one of the most militarized areas in the world," a lengthy report from the Kuwaiti daily.
The newspaper also said rivalry between neighbors in the region would lead to an arms race "that would double the possibility of a large-scale war fueled by a cycle of fear and mistrust."
"The Shah of Iran has pushed the region towards a conventional arms race to confirm that he is the policeman of the Persian Gulf and Iran's expansionist regime is dragging the region towards a nuclear and missile race to confirm that it is the region's policeman," Qabas quoted UAE political analyst Abdul Khaliq Abdullah as saying.
"What Iran does not understand is that the Gulf states will not accept Iran as the region's policemen and will carry it with a weapon for a weapon, a missile for a missile and a bomb with a bomb," he said.
Abdul Khaliq warned of the outbreak of a "fourth war in the Arabian Gulf," against the backdrop of entering the region "a new stage of weapons' race because of Iranian policies."
"If the news is true, it is the responsibility of the Iranian regime that dragged the region into this situation. The kingdom has already warned time and again that if Iran goes ahead with its nuclear project, it may have to adopt the same project," said former Saudi Shura Council member Dr. Mohammad Al-Zalfa. Not by animosity but for deterrence, although the Kingdom's policy is based on the region's denuclearization, "But if we become between two nuclear states, Israel and Iran, both hostile to the Arab nation, we do not want to be easy prey for either or both."
Source: RT