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The Saudi Arabian path to nuclear weapons

Theyre both battling for influence using religion. Although Iran is relying on religion heavily while the Saudis rely on money more. Iam still skeptical on where does iran get the money to fund its militias considering their economy is not good

As opposed to Egyptian Nasserism (back in the day) and Arab socialism (which failed)?

First it was with wahabism then with money.

Did you forget the Muslim Brotherhood (Egyptian invention), Sayyid Qutb (the godfather of modern Islamic extremism).



BTW KSA's influence was cemented by Islamic empires, spread of Islam, 1000 years of dynastic rule on 3 continents (Asia, Africa and Europe), Makkah and Madinah (naturally center of Islam as such anyone that controls it - now locals control it again) and KSA being the 3rd most blessed country in the world in terms of natural resources and minerals (they never stole those resources unlike many other nations and civilizations in the past), is not exactly there fault.

Besides there is nothing called Wahhabism nowadays and I doubt that there ever was any, other than orthodox Sunni Islam (something that has always been present in the Muslim world).

With an estimated value of US$34.40 trillion, Saudi Arabia has the third most valuable natural resource reserves in the world; mostly petroleum and natural gas.


And Egypt of all countries, should be thankful for Saudi Arabian economic help, I think they helped you keep afloat and continue to help you.
 
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I have to ask what are you talking about

can I get some links for this seems intresting?
Who do you think financed the Pakistani nuclear program? Read up on KSA's purchases of Chinese missiles in the late 1980's.


Better, start reading the article that I posted. A lot is explained in that article.


I personally have no doubt that KSA (while we speak) is continuing establishing their own nuclear weapons program and civilian nuclear program. The last thing is an open secret and is done in public. Rest, not so much.
 
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You dumb @$$, Saudis are Wahhabis, not Sunnis.

Every Islamic sect (almost all which are native to modern-day KSA) are found in KSA natively (depending on the region). This includes all the 3 main Shia sects.

The Muslims that you stupidly call Wahhabis are Sunnis that follow the Hanbali school of thought. Hanbalis are a minority within KSA and are mostly concentrated in Najd. The rest of the Sunnis in KSA (majority) are mainly Shafi'is and Malikis (minority of Hanafis too), while among the Saudi Arabian Shias there are indigenous communities of Twelvers, Zaydis and Ismailis.

Don't be stupid and educate yourself a little or visit KSA and then talk.
 
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Did you read the article? KSA does not ask permission from anyone. Did they ask permission when they founded our nuclear program and stood by us during the harshest of sanctions like one of the few countries in the world?

And I believe that it is the right of every sovereign country to develop weapons that can protect them. Why should nuclear weapons only be owned by a few select countries? Either abolish them all or allow everyone to have them.....Humans built this technology, now they need to live with the consequences of such actions, just like destroying the planet....

As for tying it to Iran, why does Iran tie its own program to Israel? The answer is logical, influential regional states do not want to be left alone and allow regional rivals to develop nuclear weapons and just sit back.

Which is why countries like Turkey, Egypt and UAE will likely follow suit should nuclear weapons spread in the region outside of Israel.
Well we did everything and then announced it.
Secondly for Saudis the US permission matters as the isreal security and its military superiority in the region is #1 priority so it would be harsh for both Pakistan and KSA to gamble on it the nuke club is an exclusive one they don't want anyone added to it ... SK is also indeed need the US against China and NK and it's hard to think they would bypass them.
By the way even peaceful nuclear program is somehow red line for western countries as they wanna have a monopoly over future of energy ...
At last when we tied our program to isreal? we never said 'cause of isreal we wanna have nuclear program or nuke ...
Turkey, Egypt and UAE would not get nuclear weapons neither ....
 
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Well we did everything and then announced it.
Secondly for Saudis the US permission matters as the isreal security and its military superiority in the region is #1 priority so it would be harsh for both Pakistan and KSA to gamble on it the nuke club is an exclusive one they don't want anyone added to it ... SK is also indeed need the US against China and NK and it's hard to think they would bypass them.
By the way even peaceful nuclear program is somehow red line for western countries as they wanna have a monopoly over future of energy ...
At last when we tied our program to isreal? we never said 'cause of isreal we wanna have nuclear program or nuke ...
Turkey, Egypt and UAE would not get nuclear weapons neither ....

They could get it within days all of the countries you mentioned but this has nothing to do with Israel.. Your delusions about Israel has blinded you from reality but the truth is Israel is tiny irrelevant outpost always have been.. This is about NATO's own dominance if the whole Mid-east went Nuclear weapon this will change the world order and the center of power back to the Mid-east..

These nations don't want to get on the bed side of NATO but rest assured they will use Iran as an excuse to gain it hence the US or NATO is in hasty to shout that down whether it uses war or diplomacy but either way it will eventually have to use war or otherwise risk losing the enter of power to a nuclearised mid-east taking back world hegemony. You go figure which is the best option to chose 1. Sacrifice Iran keep hegemony or 2 allow Iran to cause nuclear proliferation in the region leading to losing hegemony.. They will go with option one anyday.. Turkey, UAE and KSA can become nuclear states within days..
 
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The Saudi path to nuclear weapons​

Posted on August 28, 2022 by beyondnuclearinternational

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Kingdom’s pursuit of nuclear power development should set off alarm bells


By Henry Sokolski

Iran’s nuclear program, oil, and human rights dominated Biden’s much-anticipated first presidential trip to the Middle East earlier this month. But there is one topic President Biden chose not to showcase during his visit with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud—the Kingdom’s most recent interest in nuclear energy—and the nuclear weapons proliferation concerns that come with it.

Only weeks before Biden’s visit, Riyadh invited South Korea, Russia, and China to bid on the construction of two large power reactors. On that bid, Korea Electric Power Company (KEPCO) is the most likely winner. KEPCO has already built four reactors for Riyadh’s neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, and is the only vendor to bring a power reactor of its own design online in the Middle East. South Korea also is the only government to provide reliable, generous financing, free of political strings—something neither Moscow nor Beijing can credibly claim.

And then, there’s this: Any Korean sale would be covered by a generous 2011 South Korean nuclear cooperative agreement with Riyadh that explicitly authorizes the Saudis to enrich any uranium it might receive from Seoul. Under the agreement, Riyadh could enrich this material by up to 20 percent, without having to secure Seoul’s prior consent.

That should set off alarm bells.

Do the Saudis want a bomb?

In 2018, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman announced that “if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.” As if to prove the point, late in 2020, word leaked that the Saudis have been working secretly with the Chinese to mine and process Saudi uranium ore. These are steps toward enriching uranium—and a possible nuclear weapon program.

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What is the true nuclear agenda of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman? (Photo: US Department of State/Wikimedia Commons)

Unlike the Emirates, which legally renounced enriching uranium or reprocessing spent fuel to separate plutonium, the Kingdom insists on retaining its “right” to enrich. Also, unlike most members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Saudi Arabia refuses to allow intrusive inspections that might help the IAEA find covert nuclear weapons-related activities, if they exist, under a nuclear inspections addendum known as the Additional Protocol.

Saudi Arabia’s enrichment program and refusal to adopt the Additional Protocol, doubled with a possible permissive South Korean reactor sale, could spell trouble. South Korea currently makes its nuclear fuel assemblies using imported uranium, which mainly comes from Australia. This ore is controlled by Australia’s uranium export policy, which requires that the uranium be monitored by the IAEA and that materials derived from it not be retransferred to a third country without first securing Australia’s consent. Yet, if Seoul decides to pass Australian uranium on to Riyadh, the Saudis are free to enrich it up to 20 percent at any time without having to secure anyone’s approval. In addition, Riyadh could proceed to enrich this material without having to agree to intrusive IAEA inspections under the Additional Protocol, making it easier for Riyadh to enrich beyond 20 percent uranium 235 without anyone knowing.

Can Washington block the reactor export?

In Washington, the US nuclear industry understandably is miffed that Riyadh excluded Westinghouse from bidding on the Saudi reactors. Meanwhile, State Department officials say that KEPCO can’t sell Riyadh its APR-1400 reactor because it incorporates US nuclear technology that is property of Westinghouse. KEPCO, they insist, would first need to secure US Energy Department approval under US intangible technology transfer controls (known as Part 810 authorizations). This requirement, they argue, gives Washington the leverage it needs to impose nonproliferation conditions on South Korea’s reactor export to Riyadh.

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During his recent visit to Saudi Arabia and his meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, US President Biden chose not to showcase the Kingdom’s most recent interest in nuclear energy. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons)

This sounds fine. But there’s a catch. South Korean officials insist that its APR-1400 design, which uses a Combustion Engineering data package that Westinghouse now owns, is entirely indigenous. Focusing on the matter of technology transfer authority also begs a bigger question: Does the Republic of Korea need Washington’s blessing to begin enriching uranium itself or to transfer enrichment technology to other countries, such as Saudi Arabia?

The short answer is no.

South Korea has always been free to enrich uranium and transfer uranium enrichment technology to other countries so long as the uranium it enriched or the enrichment technology it shipped wasn’t of US origin. America’s veto over South Korean enrichment only applies to uranium that comes from the United States. As I learned from a recent interview of the two top negotiators of the 2015 US-Republic of Korea civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, Seoul has always known this. Yet, South Korea asked that Washington explicitly grant it authority to enrich uranium in the 2015 agreement—something Washington has yet to grant. According to the negotiators, South Korean officials preferred to have political permission from Washington to do so, even though they did not legally need it.

South Korea and the United States have a choice

South Korea’s previous administration under President Moon Jae-in announced in 2021 that South Korea would not export reactors to countries that had not yet agreed to adopt the IAEA’s Additional Protocol. Is this pledge one that President Yoon Suk-yeol will uphold? Or will Yoon reverse this policy in his effort to go all out to secure the reactor sale to Riyadh?

Similarly, how committed is the Biden Administration to prevent Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium and reprocessing spent reactor fuel? Previous administrations have tried to keep Riyadh clear of such activities. Will Washington keep Seoul’s and Saudi Arabia’s feet to the fire on this or will the administration’s desire to close ranks with South Korea and Saudi Arabia push these nonproliferation concerns to the sidelines? Anyone interested in preventing the further spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East should want to know the answers.

Henry Sokolski is the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Arlington, Virginia, and author of Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future (2019). He served as deputy for nonproliferation policy in the office of the US secretary of defense during the George H.W. Bush administration.

This article was first published by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is republished here with permission of the author.

The opinions expressed in articles by outside contributors and published on the Beyond Nuclear International website, are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Beyond Nuclear. However, we try to offer a broad variety of viewpoints and perspectives as part of our mission “to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future”.

Headline photo of Riyadh Ministry of the Interior building, Saudi Arabia, by IMP1/Creative Commons.


If we forget the fact that KSA already has access to nuclear weapons, such news is entertaining.

Don't know who writes such columns. If these journalists don't know the terms and conditions of NPT. Only three countries in the world are not signatories of NPT, Pakistan, Israel, and India. Saudi Arabia signed the NPT in 1988 and they have the right to build a nuclear power plant or for health sciences with the help of nuclear supplier groups/approval.
 
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Every Islamic sect (almost all which are native to modern-day KSA) are found in KSA natively (depending on the region). This includes all the 3 main Shia sects.

The Muslims that you stupidly call Wahhabis are Sunnis that follow the Hanbali school of thought. Hanbalis are a minority within KSA and are mostly concentrated in Najd. The rest of the Sunnis in KSA (majority) are mainly Shafi'is and Malikis (minority of Hanafis too), while among the Saudi Arabian Shias there are indigenous communities of Twelvers, Zaydis and Ismailis.

Don't be stupid and educate yourself a little or visit KSA and then talk.
Saudis aka Najdis are Wahhabis.
 
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As opposed to Egyptian Nasserism (back in the day) and Arab socialism (which failed)?



Did you forget the Muslim Brotherhood (Egyptian invention), Sayyid Qutb (the godfather of modern Islamic extremism).



BTW KSA's influence was cemented by Islamic empires, spread of Islam, 1000 years of dynastic rule on 3 continents (Asia, Africa and Europe), Makkah and Madinah (naturally center of Islam as such anyone that controls it - now locals control it again) and KSA being the 3rd most blessed country in the world in terms of natural resources and minerals (they never stole those resources unlike many other nations and civilizations in the past), is not exactly there fault.

Besides there is nothing called Wahhabism nowadays and I doubt that there ever was any, other than orthodox Sunni Islam (something that has always been present in the Muslim world).

With an estimated value of US$34.40 trillion, Saudi Arabia has the third most valuable natural resource reserves in the world; mostly petroleum and natural gas.


And Egypt of all countries, should be thankful for Saudi Arabian economic help, I think they helped you keep afloat and continue to help you.
All right tribesman dont get so cocky. Said qutb was influecend by wahhabism and so was most sunni international terrorist organzations. Egypt seems to be the center of anyone who wants to dod something in the arab world. Wanna make your study valid, your kind of religion more popular, wanna learn? go to Egypt. The gulf will not survive on this pace failing in diplomatic strategic and military sectors and using Americans to teach saudi strategists how to do anything. The ammount of paid media shinning on SA is unbeleivable, ive seen a post on al sharq bloomberg explaining how SA and UAE demolished inflation completely ignoring oil and prices doubled and even tripled which is a primary source of income for both and the fact that they have inflation in the first place is embarrassing. THe economic assistance for Egypt is for SA's intrest for Iran not eat them alive when America decides. Since i linked you that arab defence forum you seem to be more and more arrogant, what happened bro.
@joker88 Ill use your forum for info if you dont mind
 
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All right tribesman dont get so cocky. Said qutb was influecend by wahhabism and so was most sunni international terrorist organzations. Egypt seems to be the center of anyone who wants to dod something in the arab world. Wanna make your study valid, your kind of religion more popular, wanna learn? go to Egypt. The gulf will not survive on this pace failing in diplomatic strategic and military sectors and using Americans to teach saudi strategists how to do anything. The ammount of paid media shinning on SA is unbeleivable, ive seen a post on al sharq bloomberg explaining how SA and UAE demolished inflation completely ignoring oil and prices doubled and even tripled which is a primary source of income for both and the fact that they have inflation in the first place is embarrassing. THe economic assistance for Egypt is for SA's intrest for Iran not eat them alive when America decides. Since i linked you that arab defence forum you seem to be more and more arrogant, what happened bro.
@joker88 Ill use your forum for info if you dont mind

What are you even talking about? In the real world KSA and the GCC is helping Egypt keep afloat and they helped save you numerous times. There is no comparison here.

Sure, MB and Qutbism is the invention of KSA.:lol:

While you are at it, why don't you blame KSA for Islam as a whole, after all Islam is an Arabian religion native to modern-day KSA (Arabia). Sunni, Shia Islam and Sufism all originated in Arabia.

As for learning, KSA is far ahead of Egypt on this front today and has been for a long time. Compare literacy rates, university rankings etc. Every official data confirms this. The only thing that even makes it remotely close is the large population of Egypt (cramped together along the Nile, rest is flat desert) but yet KSA is considerably ahead.

This is not the 1950's any longer post-Egypt British colony.

As a Pakistani looking at your posts, all I see is inflation of Egypt and diminishing those friends of yours (other Arabs, KSA included) that helped you stay afloat in your hardest times.

Next you will claim that you won the wars against Israel.....

I have nothing against Egypt but you are not even a regional power any longer with widespread influence. You have 100 times more challenges ahead of you than KSA. From overpopulation, poverty, climate changes, internal politics etc. to just mention a few.

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Look at this map. The Nile (whose future is in doubt) is literally your lifeline.

Stop this delusion of Egypt being the center of the world, I have seen it a few times. Arrogance towards other Arab countries is not going to change the ground realities and makes you look desperate.

As for Iran, (somebody has been reading propaganda or just trolling deliberately), if you genuinely think that they are a military threat for KSA/GCC or can invade a territory 2 times the size of Iran with extreme geographic challenges (numerous mountain ranges, deserts, highlands, steppe), a several times superior military power (on paper) and a combined population of almost 100 million (if you include Yemen), I am afraid that you are stupid.

Saudis aka Najdis are Wahhabis.

Najdis are majority Sunni Hanbalis.

Most importantly nowadays your average Saudi Arabian (2/3 of the population is below 25 years) is more "liberal" than the average Pakistani. Especially after MbS the last 7 years. You should visit KSA, they don't have those idiotic sectarian problems or wearing "Islam on their sleeves". Anyway I don't blame you, after all there is so much propaganda out there.
 
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What are you even talking about? In the real world KSA and the GCC is helping Egypt keep afloat and they helped save you numerous times. There is no comparison here.

Sure, MB and Qutbism is the invention of KSA.:lol:

While you are at it, why don't you blame KSA for Islam as a whole, after all Islam is an Arabian religion native to modern-day KSA (Arabia). Sunni, Shia Islam and Sufism all originated in Arabia.

As for learning, KSA is far ahead of Egypt on this front today and has been for a long time. Compare literacy rates, university rankings etc. Every official data confirms this. The only thing that even makes it remotely close is the large population of Egypt (cramped together along the Nile, rest is flat desert) but yet KSA is considerably ahead.

This is not the 1950's any longer post-Egypt British colony.

As a Pakistani looking at your posts, all I see is inflation of Egypt and diminishing those friends of yours (other Arabs, KSA included) that helped you stay afloat in your hardest times.

Next you will claim that you won the wars against Israel.....

I have nothing against Egypt but you are not even a regional power any longer with widespread influence. You have 100 times more challenges ahead of you than KSA. From overpopulation, poverty, climate changes, internal politics etc. to just mention a few.

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Look at this map. The Nile (whose future is in doubt) is literally your lifeline.

Stop this delusion of Egypt being the center of the world, I have seen it a few times. Arrogance towards other Arab countries is not going to change the ground realities and makes you look desperate.

As for Iran, (somebody has been reading propaganda or just trolling deliberately), if you genuinely think that they are a military threat for KSA/GCC or can invade a territory 2 times the size of KSA with extreme geographic challenges (numerous mountain ranges, deserts, highlands, steppe), a several times superior military power (on paper) and a combined population of almost 100 million (if you include Yemen), I am afraid that you are stupid.
You didnt even read the thread i linked.Today SA policies try and mimic a regional power which it cannot take responsbility for neither militarily diplomatically or even on strategic basis and yemen is all the evidence. The fact that the saudi military relies on Pakistanis sudanese somalis to defend its borders and inturn cause massive losses combined with the international world cup of airdefenses in SA that cant defend your own capital from drones launched by a militia 2000kms away. The saudi 4th armoured division recently retreated from yemen, the houthis won the war and you have to admit the planning of SA is abysmal and primitive at best. If a militia can do that imagine what a whole nation of the same way of fighting can do (Iran). You can delude yourself of SA's hemogony over everyone while infact everyone plays you to become a bank of money anyone can use, even the ukranians used it with GROM deal. Saudi investments in the US and Europe are being diverted to Egypt for whatever reason and if you think this is giving you leverage then it should have done that to Europe and US while the opposite is the truth. Since MBS have been meeting with sisi and he started breaking the US's nose instead of being a servant to Uncle sam and alot more other policies related to uniting the Arabs instead of SA's lust for leadership she cannot take reesponsbility for. High level colleges are full of saudis pakistanis indians and bangledeshis and ive seen that with my own eyes in new cairo and al galala especially American College. For medical institutions most of the Gulf travel abroad for medical care which they go to the UK or Egypt, the UK's best doctors are Egyptians and thats why the BBC went batshit insane on the media to flame the Medical sector in Egypt.
 
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You didnt even read the thread i linked.Today SA policies try and mimic a regional power which it cannot take responsbility for neither militarily diplomatically or even on strategic basis and yemen is all the evidence. The fact that the saudi military relies on Pakistanis sudanese somalis to defend its borders and inturn cause massive losses combined with the international world cup of airdefenses in SA that cant defend your own capital from drones launched by a militia 2000kms away. The saudi 4th armoured division recently retreated from yemen, the houthis won the war and you have to admit the planning of SA is abysmal and primitive at best. If a militia can do that imagine what a whole nation of the same way of fighting can do (Iran). You can delude yourself of SA's hemogony over everyone while infact everyone plays you to become a bank of money anyone can use, even the ukranians used it with GROM deal. Saudi investments in the US and Europe are being diverted to Egypt for whatever reason and if you think this is giving you leverage then it should have done that to Europe and US while the opposite is the truth. Since MBS have been meeting with sisi and he started breaking the US's nose instead of being a servant to Uncle sam and alot more other policies related to uniting the Arabs instead of SA's lust for leadership she cannot take reesponsbility for. High level colleges are full of saudis pakistanis indians and bangledeshis and ive seen that with my own eyes in new cairo and al galala especially American College. For medical institutions most of the Gulf travel abroad for medical care which they go to the UK or Egypt, the UK's best doctors are Egyptians and thats why the BBC went batshit insane on the media to flame the Medical sector in Egypt.

Bro, I don't know what you are a smoking, but you need to share it. Let us just leave it at that. Good stuff (jokes) with the Somalis and going to Egypt for healthcare and "losing" in Yemen or KSA "not being able to protect itself", lol.

In the real world KSA has received more investments from abroad than any other regional country in recent years.

Also KSA's strategic ties with China and other world powers are on a different level from those of Egypt (no disrespect but the comparison is a joke just look at the KSA-China trade and compare it with Egypt-China) so for you to make some nonsense up of Sisi being needed or relevant for KSA to move it "away from USA" (lol) must be some kind of joke. Egypt, from what I am aware of, still receives military support from the US (literally begging) and if you take pride in that, so be it, but don't put KSA in the same box in this regard. They have an actual independent policy and can actually directly influence the world powers, unlike most regional actors. I would only include Turkey (NATO) in this list and Israel. Those are facts. One can deny this or not, it won't change the reality.
 
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You didnt even read the thread i linked.Today SA policies try and mimic a regional power which it cannot take responsbility for neither militarily diplomatically or even on strategic basis and yemen is all the evidence. The fact that the saudi military relies on Pakistanis sudanese somalis to defend its borders and inturn cause massive losses combined with the international world cup of airdefenses in SA that cant defend your own capital from drones launched by a militia 2000kms away. The saudi 4th armoured division recently retreated from yemen, the houthis won the war and you have to admit the planning of SA is abysmal and primitive at best. If a militia can do that imagine what a whole nation of the same way of fighting can do (Iran). You can delude yourself of SA's hemogony over everyone while infact everyone plays you to become a bank of money anyone can use, even the ukranians used it with GROM deal. Saudi investments in the US and Europe are being diverted to Egypt for whatever reason and if you think this is giving you leverage then it should have done that to Europe and US while the opposite is the truth. Since MBS have been meeting with sisi and he started breaking the US's nose instead of being a servant to Uncle sam and alot more other policies related to uniting the Arabs instead of SA's lust for leadership she cannot take reesponsbility for. High level colleges are full of saudis pakistanis indians and bangledeshis and ive seen that with my own eyes in new cairo and al galala especially American College. For medical institutions most of the Gulf travel abroad for medical care which they go to the UK or Egypt, the UK's best doctors are Egyptians and thats why the BBC went batshit insane on the media to flame the Medical sector in Egypt.
Perfect analysis, this is also what I've seeing, some even come to heavily sanctioned Iran for medical care. The students and many staff are from south asia, teachers being westerners/south asian as well. They wanted to outsource fighting as well, but even then lost in Yemen because the Houthis/Ansarallah have now become a permanent component of Yemen.
 
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Africa's largest hydroelectric dam has completed its 3rd round of water filling due to this year's extraordinary rainfall! I wonder what our Egyptian neighbors and Arab brothers at large think about the news that the erosion flow of the fertile Nile has been affected by the dam.
 
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Perfect analysis, this is also what I've seeing, some even come to heavily sanctioned Iran for medical care. The students and many staff are from south asia, teachers being westerners/south asian as well. They wanted to outsource fighting as well, but even then lost in Yemen because the Houthis/Ansarallah have now become a permanent component of Yemen.
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Saudi Arabians are not allowed to visit Iran and nobody is visiting it to begin with outside of the small minority of Shias that might go visit it to visit shrines of dead Arabians from modern-day KSA, after visiting Iraq. Because direct travel from KSA to Iran is banned as the two countries have no relations. I won't exclude that 5-10 of such people (lol) might go to Iran to receive a cheap hair transplant or something else.

The healthcare system of KSA is literally ranked 50 places higher than both Iran and Egypt.


No comparison.

Similarly with literacy rates, education etc.


Nobody lost anything. Before March 2015, Houthis controlled all of Yemen. Now they control 20%.

Besides long-term Houthis cannot live without KSA, they need peace desperately. Yemen will always be in the sphere of influnece of KSA, geography and history dictates that.
 
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