Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman is “deeply offended” by the German government and froze new business with the Federal Republic, wrote Der Spiegel.
The kingdom's nuclear rhetoric is about US policy and the Iranian threat.
The prince confirmed Netanyahu’s warning in the U.S. that Iran deal leads to arms race.
The government approved a national policy for its atomic energy program on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia has welcomed the lobbying, they said, though it is likely to worry regional rival Iran at a time when tensions are already high in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia and other Arab foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting in Cairo on Sunday to discuss confronting Iran and its Lebanese Shi'ite ally Hezbollah.
Foreign Ministry paper allegedly offers peace with the Jewish state in exchange for US pressure on Iran.
But now, they argue, under the leadership of King Salman and his son, 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis are going too far.
Thamer al-Sabhan personifies Saudi Arabia’s fight against the ‘terrorist militia.’
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