Various underground positions where large quantities of nuclear arms are allegedly storedRumours have spread like wildfire that Saudi Arabia has bought nuclear arms from their neighbouring Muslim country, Pakistan.
The report by the BBC suggested that: “The Saudis might be able to deploy such devices more quickly” than Iran. Also, that these nuclear weapons were sitting in Pakistan, ready for delivery.
In 2009, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia warned the US convoy that if Iran crossed the threshold, then: “we will get nuclear weapons.”
Having warned the Americans in private for years, last year Saudi officials in Riyadh escalated it to a public warning, telling a journalist from the Times: “It would be completely unacceptable to have Iran with a nuclear capability and not the kingdom”.
One senior Pakistani official confirmed the broad nature of the deal he had reached with the kingdom and asked rhetorically: “What did we think the Saudis were giving us all that money for? It wasn’t charity.”
It has been apparent that Saudi Arabia has financially supported Pakistan’s defence division for many years, including investment in missile labs- according to western experts.
In the late 1980s they secretly bought dozens of CSS-2 ballistic missiles from China.
These rockets, considered by many experts too inaccurate for use as conventional weapons, were deployed 20 years ago.
