While the West was applying pressure on Iran to abandon its civilian nuclear programme, the Saudis were buying the atomic bomb from Israel or Pakistan. From now on, to everyone’s surprise, the Near East has become a nuclear zone, dominated by Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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7 MARCH 2016 
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In 1979, Israel completed the final adjustments
to its atomic bomb, in collaboration with the apartheid régime of South Africa.
The Hebrew state has never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and has always
avoided answering questions about its nuclear programme.
Every year since 1980, the United Nations
General Assembly has adopted a consensual resolution to make the Near East a
region free from all nuclear weapon. This resolution was aimed at encouraging
Israel to give up its bomb and to ensure that other states would not enter into
an arms race.
Under the Shah, Iran also had a military
nuclear programme, but it was pursued only marginally after the revolution of
1979, because of the war started by Iraq (1980-88). However, it was only after
the end of war that ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini opposed weapons of mass
destruction, and consequently prohibited the fabrication, possession and the
use of atomic weapons.
Negotiations then began for the restitution of
the 1,180 billion dollars of Iranian investment in the Eurodif complex for the
enrichment of uranium at Tricastin. However, the question was never resolved.
As a result, during the dissolution of Eurodif in 2010, the Islamic Republic of
Iran still owned 10% of the capital. It is probable that it still holds a part
of the company for uranium enrichment at Tricastin.
From 2003 to 2005, the negotiations relative to
the nuclear litigation were presided for Iran by Sheikh Hassan Rohani, a
religious leader close to Presidents Rafsandjani and Khatami. The Europeans
demanded the introduction of a passage stipulating that Iran dismantle its
system for the teaching of nuclear physics, so as to ensure that they would be unable
to relaunch their military programme.
However, when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – a partisan
for the relaunching of the Khomeinist Revolution – came to power, he rejected
the agreement negotiated by Sheikh Rohani and dismissed him. He restarted the
teaching of nuclear physics, and launched a research programme which was aimed,
in particular, at finding a way of producing electricity from atomic fusion and
not nuclear fission, which is currently used by the United States, Russia,
France, China and Japan.
Accusing President Ahmadinejad of «preparing
the Apocalypse to hasten the return of the Mahdi» (sic), Israël launched an
international Press campaign intended to isolate Iran. In reality, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad does not share the Jewish vision of an evil world which has to be
destroyed and then rebuilt, but that of a progressive maturation of collective
awareness until Parousia, the return of the Mahdi and the prophets. At the same
time, Mossad busied itself with the assassination, one by one, of a number of
Iranian nuclear scientists. From their side, the Western powers and the UN
Security Council adopted ever more restrictive sanctions until they had
completely isolated Iran at the economic and financial level.
In 2013, the Guide of the Revolution, ayatollah
Ali Khameinei, agreed to a round of secret discussions with Washington, in
Oman. Persuaded that he had to loosen the constraints which were suffocating
his country, he considered a provisional ten-year agreement. After a
preliminary agreement, Ahmadinejad’s candidacy for the Presidential election
was not authorised, and Sheikh Hassan Rohani was elected. He restarted the
negotiations that he had abandoned in 2005, and accepted the Western
conditions, including the ban on enriching uranium at 20%, which put an end to
the research on nuclear fusion.
In November 2013, Saudi Arabia organised a
secret summit which brought together members of the Gulf Cooperation Council
and the friendly Muslim states [1]. In the presence of delegates from the UN General Secretariat, Israeli
President Shimon Peres joined them by video-conference. The participants
concluded that the danger was not the Israeli bomb, but the bomb that Iran
might one day possess. The Saudis assured their interlocutors that they would
take the necessary initiatives.
Military cooperation between Israel and Saudi
Arabia is a new phenomenon, but the two countries have been working together
since 2008, when Riyadh financed Israel’s punitive expedition in Gaza, known as
«Operation Cast Lead» [2].
The 5+1 agreement was not made public until
mid-2015. During the negotiations, Saudi Arabia multiplied its declarations
that it would launch an arms race if the international community did not manage
to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear programme [3].
On the 6th February 2015, President Obama
published his new «National Security Strategy». He wrote - «Long-term stability
[in the Middle East and North Africa] requires more than the use and presence
of US military forces. It demands partners who are capable of defending
themselves by themselves. This is why we invest in the capacity of Israel,
Jordan and our Gulf partners to discourage aggression, while maintaining our
unwavering support for the security of Israel, including the continued
improvement of its military capacities» [4].
On the 25th March 2015, Saudi Arabia began its
operation «Decisive Tempest» in Yemen, officially aimed at re-instating the
Yemeni President, who had been overthrown by a popular revolution. In fact, the
operation was the implementation of the secret agreement between Israel and
Saudi Arabia for the exploitation of the Rub’al-Khali oil fields [5].
On the 26th March 2015, Adel Al-Jubeir, then
the Saudi ambassador to the United States, refused to answer a question from
CNN concerning the project for a Saudi atomic bomb.
On the 30th March 2015, a joint military Staff
was set up by Israel in Somaliland, a non-recognised state. From the first day,
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan
participated under Israel command.
Two days later, on the 1st April 2015, during
the Charm el-Cheick summit, the Arab League adopted the principle of a «Joint
Arab Force» [6]. Officially, this was to implement the Arab Defence Treaty of 1950 to
fight against terrorism. De facto, the League had validated the new Arab
military alliance under Israeli command.
In May 2015, the Joint Arab Force,
under Israeli command, used a tactical atomic bomb in Yemen. It may have been
used in an attempt to penetrate an underground bunker.
On the 16th July 2015, intelligence
specialist Duane Clarridge affirmed on Fox Business that Saudi Arabia had
bought the atomic bomb from Pakistan.
On the 18th January 2016, Secretary of
State John Kerry affirmed on CNN that atomic weaponry can not be bought and
transferred. He warned Saudi Arabia that this would constitute a violation of
the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
On the 15th February 2016, Saudi analyst Dahham
Al-’Anzi affirmed in Arabic on Russia Today that his country has been in
possession of an atomic weapon for two years, in order to protect Arabs, and
that the major powers know this.
The declarations of Saudi analyst Dahham
Al-’Anzi, on the 15th February 2016 on Russia Today – which were immediately
translated and broadcast by the Israeli service Memri – raised a considerable
echo in the Arab world. However, no international political leader, not even
Saudi, made any comment. And Russia Today has erased them from its Internet
site.
The declarations of Dahham Al-’Anzi - an
intellectual close to Prince Mohamed ben Salman – lead us to think that he was
not speaking of a strategic atomic weapon (A-bomb or H-bomb), but a tactical
bomb (N-bomb). Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine how Saudi Arabia could
«protect Arabs» from the Syrian «dictatorship» by using a strategic nuclear
bomb. Moreover, this corresponds to what has already been observed in Yemen. However,
nothing is certain.
It is obviously unlikely that Saudi Arabia had
built this kind of weapon itself, since it is absolutely bereft of scientific
knowledge in the matter. On the other hand, it is possible that it bought the
weapon from a state which has not signed the NPT, Israel or Pakistan. If we are
to believe Duane Clarridge, it would have been Islamabad which sold its
technology, but in this case, the weapon could not be a neutron bomb.
Since Saudi Arabia signed the Non-Proliferation
Treaty (TNP), it did not have the right acquire the weapon, whether it be a
tactical or a strategic bomb. But it would be enough for King Salman to declare
that he bought the bomb in his own name to avoid being concerned by the Treaty.
We know that the state of Saudi Arabia is the King’s private property, and that
his budget only represents a part of the royal coffers. This would mean
that we have entered a phase of the privatisation of nuclear weapons - a
scenario which until now had been unthinkable. This evolution must be taken
most seriously.
Finally, everything leads us to believe that
the Saudis acted within the framework of US policy, but that they overstepped
themselves by violating the NPT. By doing so, they have laid the foundation for
a nuclearised Near East in which Iran could no longer play the role that Sheikh
Rohani had hoped to recover, that of «regional police force» for the benefit of
his Anglo-Saxon friends.
Translation
Pete Kimberley
Pete Kimberley
[1] “Shimon Peres addressed Gulf Security
Council, end November”,
Translation Alizée Ville, Voltaire Network, 5 December 2013.
[2] « La guerre israélienne est
financée par l’Arabie saoudite », par Thierry Meyssan, Réseau
Voltaire, 6 janvier 2009.
[3] “Prospect of deal with Iran pushes
Saudi Arabia and Israel into an unlikely alliance”, Kim Sengupta, The Independent, March
30, 2015
[4] “Obama Rearms”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation
Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 10 February 2015.
[5] “The secret projects of Israël and
Saudi Arabia”, by
Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 27
June 2015.
[6] “The « Arab » Common Defence Force”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation
Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 14 May 2015.
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