Failure to curb Iran's pursuit to acquire nuclear bomb will have its consequences

Iranian regime's push to acquire nuclear weapons during past 20 years would have gone unnoticed, if it wasn't for the main Iranian opposition to bring that to the light in 2002. For past 13 years the National Council of Resistance of Iran, NCRI and its supporters and operatives in Iran have gone in length to expose the menace of the Iranian regime. But instead the west naive approach towards Iran followed the appeasement policy emboldening the mullahs. This policy would no doubt lead to a more dangerous Middle East with other nations wanting to follow the nuclear path. The former Saudi foreign minister said that whatever the Iranian regime gets, we would pursue as well. That is why, according to an article in the Sunday Times, the Saudis have made a "strategic decision" to acquire "off-the-shelf" nuclear weapons from Pakistan. 

Senior US officials say that Sunni Arab states are increasingly concerned of the repercussions of a deal currently being negotiated between world powers and Shi'ite rival Iran, which they fear may still be able to develop a nuclear bomb.

The deal being negotiated between Iran and the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany would see the Shi'ite nation curb its sensitive nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

"For the Saudis the moment has come," a former US defense official told the Sunday Times last week.

"There has been a long-standing agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward."

'This stuff is available to them off the shelf'

Another US official working in intelligence told the paper that "hundreds of people at CIA headquarters in Langley" were working to establish whether Islamabad had already supplied the Gulf nation with nuclear technology or weaponry.

"We know this stuff is available to them off the shelf," the intelligence official said, adding that it "has to be the assumption" that the Saudis have decided to become a nuclear power. 

"We can't sit back and be nowhere as Iran is allowed to retain much of its capability and amass its research," an Arab leader preparing to meet Obama told the New York Times on Monday (11 May).

The sentiment was shared by former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal, who told a recent conference in South Korea: "whatever the Iranians have, we will have, too."

The right to enrich uranium

If inked the deal will leave 5,000 centrifuges and a research and development program in place — features that are highly contested by Israel and Arab states.

By allowing Iran to retain the right to enrich uranium, the deal may inadvertently increase nuclear proliferation in the region, by providing justification for other Middle Eastern countries to match Iran. 

Saudi Arabia has financed substantial amounts of Islamabad's nuclear program over the past three decades, providing Pakistan's government with billions of dollars of subsidized oil while taking delivery of Shaheen mobile ballistic missiles.

"Given their close relations and close military links, it's long been assumed that if the Saudis wanted, they would call in a commitment, moral or otherwise, for Pakistan to supply them immediately with nuclear warheads," former Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen told the Sunday Times. 

A senior British military officer also told the paper that Western military leaders "all assume the Saudis have made the decision to go nuclear."

"The fear is that other Middle Eastern powers — Turkey and Egypt — may feel compelled to do the same and we will see a new, even more dangerous, arms race."

A startling report on Monday revealed that during a gang clashes in a small Texas town of Waco, a few hundred motorcyclists clashed which resulted in at least 9 death and dozens of injured. Just imagine if a similar clash occurs with terrorist gangs having some kind of nuclear weapons, receive from the Iranian regime, the godfather of terrorism. That scenario is unimaginable with catastrophic consciences.

The current strategy the Obama administration pursues with Iran leaves one worrying about such scenario. The only way to assure that this would never happen anywhere in the world is to deny nuclear bomb to the godfather of all terrorist, the mullahs' regime ruling Iran.