Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer didn’t dismiss outright the possibility of Israeli support for a Saudi Arabian civilian nuclear power program that includes uranium enrichment during an interview he gave to PBS over the weekend.
“Like so many things, the devil is in the details,” he told NewsHour on Friday after holding meetings in Washington last week with US officials, including with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday.
They discussed the US push for a deal with Saudi Arabia, which could involve both Saudi nuclear civil power, including enrichment, as well as normalized ties with Israel.
“We will have to look at what is ultimately agreed on,” Dermer said.
“The Saudis have put that, a civilian nuclear program, which you probably are aware of, as signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), they [the Saudis] could go to China or France tomorrow and they could ask them to set a civil nuclear program and to allow for domestic enrichment,” Dermer said. READ MORE