Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister, stated on Wednesday in Tunisia that he believed the Iranian nuclear programme to be for peaceful ends, while one cannot say the same for Israel. "From what I have heard though official channels, Iran's nuclear program has peaceful aims," he claimed, underlining that Israel continues to develop and maintain a nuclear arsenal, while the rest of the world is speaking out against proliferation.
He questioned whether the fact that Israel has nuclear weapons does not raisethe logical question why other nations in the region should not have such weapons as well, an issue raised by the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal last month when he accused the west of being partly to blame for the current crisis for helping Israel to develop its 100 nuclear weapons in stock.
The Saudi position is that the whole of the Middle East should be free of nuclear and other Weapons of Mass destruction.
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