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Sunday 6 October 2013 16:00
Distressed over Iran-US Rapprochement, Saudis Searching Way to Sabotage Talks
Saudi officials have reportedly become deeply upset and anxious over the Iranians' success during President Hassan Rouhani's recent visit to New York and the possible start of rapprochement between Tehran and Washington, and are seeking a way to sabotage the trend, a source said.
TEHRAN (Asremrooz):"The Saudi officials are highly distressed over this rapprochement and have held a meeting on September 24 in the presence of President of the Royal Court Khalid al-Tuwaijri, Commander of the National Guard Mutaib bin Abdullah, Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and National Security Council Secretary and Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan," an informed source close to the Saudi Royal family told FNA on Sunday.

"At the meeting the relations between Iran and the US and the settlement of Iran's nuclear issue with the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) came under study and Iran's growing chances of success on this path were assessed to be much dangerous to Saudi Arabia's national security," the source added.

The source said that the Saudi officials have decided to use all their diplomatic and intelligence capabilities and possibilities as well as their lobbies in the US to blockade a rapprochement between Tehran and Washington and Bandar bin Sultan was assigned to study possible ways of stirring tension between Iran and the US.

"The meeting also decided that any plan developed in this regard should be coordinated with the Israeli lobbies, which are also angry at the positive atmosphere created between Iran and the US," the source concluded.

Addressing the UN General Assembly meeting last week, US President Barack Obama said Washington wanted to resolve the nuclear issue with Iran peacefully, and added, "We are not seeking regime change, and we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy."


Also, last Friday, media reports said that the Iranian and the US presidents talked over phone before President Rouhani’s departure from New York.





Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his US counterpart John Kerry have been commissioned to follow up talks between the two countries.


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