Pak Sahafat – The American think tank “Foundation for the Defense of Democracies” rejected the report of some media about achieving significant progress in mediation to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime and announced that the previous differences remain.
In a report on Washington’s efforts to establish normal relations between Riyadh and Tel Aviv, this American think tank has brought the Biden government’s reports a few days ago about reaching an agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia in the field of designing a framework for the normalization of relations between the Arab kingdom and Israel.
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that President Joe Biden appointed high-ranking diplomats to discuss the terms of normalization with Saudi leaders. However, he rejected the reports of some people regarding the near or far time for the efforts to bear fruit.
Earlier, the “Wall Street Journal” quoted American officials as saying that Saudi Arabia and the United States have agreed on comprehensive axes for a normalization agreement; the agreement includes a list of concessions that both sides will try to negotiate over the coming months.
According to the report of this newspaper, the demands of Saudi Arabia include things such as Israel’s commitment to work towards the establishment of a Palestinian state, providing American security guarantees and helping to develop the country’s civilian nuclear program. On the other hand, the United States has sought to ensure that Saudi Arabia will distance itself economically and militarily from China as Riyadh’s largest trading partner. Washington is also trying to end Saudi Arabia’s policy of cutting oil production, as this decision has increased global oil prices.
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Mark Dubowitz, director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), believes that the agreement between the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel can be an important influencing factor in changing the rules of the game to promote regional peace, prosperity and stability. He emphasized: But it is not in the interest of any party to give Riyadh the right to enrich uranium inside the country as part of this agreement. This would be the only way to carry out Saudi Arabia’s nuclear weapons program, which would pave the way for the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
Dubowitz claimed that the Biden government, on the other hand, should activate the trigger mechanism in the nuclear agreement with Iran and quickly restore the UN sanctions against Tehran and once again establish the policy of zero percent enrichment as an international non-proliferation measure.
“Richard Goldberg”, the senior advisor of FDD, also believes that in the current situation, the main issue of the agreement is the same as three months ago. The obstacle to an agreement is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but Riyadh’s request for enrichment in its own territory.
According to him, when the Biden government says “no” to the request for Saudi enrichment, Riyadh’s predictable reaction is to ask why Washington does not follow such a policy regarding Iran’s enrichment. Goldberg clarified: “Instead of complicating the issue, the White House should look for a solution and say, “We are also against Iran’s enrichment program, and to prove it, we are establishing UN sanctions.”
The priority of enrichment over the Palestinian issue
The institute also reported on various terms of the agreement: the outline of a potential agreement is similar to what Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman proposed in March. It may be difficult for the right-wing Israeli government to accept Riyadh’s demand for a Palestinian state, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel as a campaign promise. According to an August 7 interview with Bloomberg, he now downplays such concessions and considers them within the framework of a set of demands.
The foundation’s report on the nuclear enrichment privilege adds that other requests, such as aid to the civilian nuclear program, which includes acquiring the ability to enrich uranium, are opposed by American and Israeli lawmakers; The reason is that they see giving Saudi Arabia the capability of domestic enrichment as a potential stimulus for the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The United States insists that Saudi Arabia adheres to the “gold standard” of nuclear non-proliferation and abandon uranium enrichment in its territory, as in the US civilian nuclear agreement with the United Arab Emirates, which prevented enrichment in the UAE’s territory.