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By Backgrounder, Geostrategy-Direct.com

Saudi Arabia intends to purchase nuclear weapons from Pakistan in response to Iran’s nuclear arrangement, according to a U.S. official.

“There has been a longstanding agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward,” the official said.

Asked if the move signaled Riyadh’s intention to become a nuclear power, the U.S. official said “that has to be the assumption,” the Sunday Times reported

Many analysts subscribe to the “domino” theory in which Saudi and Iran’s entry into the nuclear fold would be followed quickly by Turkey and Egypt.

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