Israel, Saudi hold secret meetings over Iran's nuke programme
June 05, 2015  21:24
Israel and Saudi Arabia have been holding secret meetings including in India to address the "common threat" posed by the Iranian nuclear programme, signalling the emergence of a new alignment between the Jewish state and the Arab world.

An extremely unusual public meeting of high-ranking Israeli and Saudi officials took place in Washington yesterday when the incoming director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry,

Dore Gold, shared a stage and shook hands, with a retired Saudi General, Anwar Eshki, who is also a former top advisor to the Saudi government, the Times of Israel reported today. The two senior officials in their back-to-back addresses to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations think tank also espoused Israeli-Saudi peace and identified Iran as the chief threat to regional stability, the website said.

Much of the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia, does not recognise Israel but reports of such clandestine meetings have been abuzz recently in view of the threat posed by the Iranian nuclear programme which is seen by many Arab countries as an effort to establish its hegemony in the region.
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