Saudi Arabia Got its Nuclear Deal on Wednesday and Lost it by Breakfast Time Yesterday
By Mario Nawfal
Wednesday afternoon: full signing ceremony, flags on stage, Riyadh beamed in on a big screen.
The Saudis got much of what they wanted, including uranium enrichment on their own soil once certain conditions were met, and limits on how far UN inspectors could go on suspected covert sites.
Then Trump posted that Saudi has to join the Abraham Accords first, and denied enrichment was ever part of it.
The timing is the interesting part. Fox spent the 7 a.m. hour asking why normalization with Israel wasn’t attached. Trump’s post went up at 7:52 a.m…
His own negotiators were blindsided, and so were the Saudis, who had treated the deal as a major win.
Many around the administration assumed Netanyahu got to him first. The White House says the two never spoke.
MBS has already said he won’t normalize without a real path to Palestinian statehood, so the deal is now stuck behind the one condition Riyadh keeps refusing.
