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17 November 2020

A senior Saudi official was cited as saying that Riyadh “reserves the right to arm itself with nuclear weapons if regional rival Iran cannot be stopped from making one”. “Saudi Arabia has made it very clear, that it will do everything it can to protect its people and to protect its territories”, he said, while arguing that “the Iranians have only responded to pressure”.

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