The Trump administration has completed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia that allows uranium enrichment for a civilian program but does not require Riyadh to adopt the IAEA's Additional Protocol, instead relying on a separate US-Saudi safeguards agreement, CNN reports. The deal has not yet been signed by President Trump or submitted to Congress.
The Trump administration has completed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia that allows uranium enrichment for a civilian program but does not require Riyadh to adopt the IAEA Additional Protocol, instead relying on a separate bilateral safeguards agreement, CNN reports. The deal has not yet been signed by President Trump or submitted to Congress. Critics warn the arrangement could ease Saudi acquisition of nuclear weapons capability. This follows a report from the Arab Desk, which The Zioneer covered at 23:38 Jerusalem, that described the same agreement without the specific detail on the Additional Protocol. The current report, attributed to CNN, provides the additional context on the safeguards framework. The agreement's status — finalized but unsigned — remains unchanged.
3 developments
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- DevelopingAnalyst: Trump's Iran deal allows oil exports without sanctions before full agreement is signed
- DevelopingTrump: Iran behaves properly, agreed not to build nuclear weapons
- DevelopingTrump administration conducts secret talks with Tehran on new nuclear deal
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