Saudi Arabia’s defence minister delivered a blunt message to Iranian officials in Tehran last month: take President Donald Trump’s offer to negotiate a nuclear agreement seriously because it presents a way to avoid the risk of war with Israel.
Alarmed at the prospect of further instability in the region, Saudi Arabia’s 89-year-old King Salman bin Abdulaziz dispatched his son, Prince Khalid bin Salman, with the warning destined for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to two Gulf sources close to government circles and two Iranian officials.
Prince Khalid, who was Saudi ambassador to Washington during Trump’s first term, warned Iranian officials that the U.S. leader has little patience for drawn-out negotiations, according to the four sources.
The people who would be most harmed by a nuclear armed Iranian regime are the Iranian people.
This is what Iran looked like before the ayatollahs took over. Successfully removing a nuclear-armed, religious-fundamentalist government is orders of magnitude more difficult for the people. The whole world will suffer, but no one more than the people of Iran themselves.
Do you really think israel and the west really care about regular iranians? Don’t misinterpret my comment as a defence to iranian autocracy
Unfortunately, the answer is no. But at the moment, all that normal folks can do is hope to be the least screwed. Something must give and soon, we can only hope it breaks in the direction of peace.
Good thing there is literally no evidence Iran is trying to obtain nuclear weapons then. Also not to defend the Ayatollahs, but you do realize that the Shah was also running a one-party dictatorship right? Like, there’s a reason the Iranian revolution happened.
Uh… not really, no. Nukes only matter for regime change by military force, which as seen in Iraq and Afghanistan is a bad idea no matter how you slice it. Those nukes, if they ever exist, are never going to be pointed at the Iranian people, so they have no reason to fear them.
Either incredibly uninformed or abject misinformation:
No ‘credible civilian’ purpose for Iran uranium France 24, 2024
UN report: Uranium particles enriched to 83.7% found in Iran - “Iran has been producing uranium enriched to 60% purity — a level for which nonproliferation experts already say Tehran has no civilian use.” AP, 2023
IAEA Report - “While some of the activities identified in the Annex have civilian as well as military applications, others are specific to nuclear weapons.” 2011
From your AP article.
-Wikipedia. Your IAEA predates the 2015 nuclear agreement so it’s pretty outdated.
Western countries’ problem isn’t that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb, but that they could plausibly build a nuclear bomb if they chose to, which at this point seems to be more of an excuse to harass their Middle Eastern rival than anything else.