Israel and Saudi Arabia are pressuring the Trump administration to carry out a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, the Arabic-language newspaper Dar Al-Hayat reported on Thursday.
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According to the report, which is based on anonymous US sources, Riyadh and Jerusalem have "exerted heavy pressure on the president to take out Iran's nuclear installations in a surgical strike" in order to sabotage Biden's plan to re-enter negotiations with the ayatollah regime on a long-term deal regarding its atomic project and other matters.
The two countries supposedly told that such was justified in light of Iran's recent breaches of the nuclear accord from 2015 and that the decision to ramp up enrichment of uranium to 20% purity was a legitimate pretext for hostilities.
According to the report, the United Arab Emirates has not been party to this lobbying effort despite seeing eye-to-eye regarding the threat posed by Iran on the region. The UAE essentially rebuffed the Israeli and Saudi officials' attempts to get it on board because it worries taking such a stance would cause a strain on its already complicated relationship with Tehran
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