Reason behind S. Arabia’s jealousy toward Iran

Saudi Arabia’s resentment of Iran is entering a brand new
stage as their highly favored president, Donald Trump, will soon leave the White
House.
The Saudi minister of state for foreign
affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, has stated that the kingdom reserves the right to equip
itself with nuclear weapons if the Islamic Republic of Iran cannot be stopped
from building atomic arms.
“It’s definitely an
option,” al-Jubeir said in a recent interview.
Jubeir, who is pretending as a fool, spoke as if Iran is on
the path toward building nuclear weapons.
Obviously, he is definitely aware of the nature of Iran’s
nuclear program. He knows that Iran’s nuclear activities are completely subject
to the most careful inspections in the history of the United Nations’
International Atomic Energy Agency.
Al-Jubeir is making such comments just because he and
certain other officials in the region are unsettled that President-elect Joe
Biden has commented that he plans to return to the historic 2015 nuclear deal –
JCPOA - that Trump illegally withdrew from and imposed the harshest ever
sanctions in history against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
These remarks by al-Juberi, whose country cheered Trump’s withdrawal
from the JCPOA with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, are mainly intended to put
pressure on the incoming U.S. president whose administration is legally tasked
to honor the historic 2015 nuclear agreement.
As someone who has previously served as the Saudi ambassador
to the United Nations in New York, al-Jubeir fully knows that the JCPOA is
endorsed by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and its observation is mandatory.
On cannot really find a convincing answer for such degree of
enmity and jealousy toward Iran by Saudi rulers. Iran has never stated Saudi
Arabia has no right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes under the watchful
eyes of the UN nuclear watchdog.
In today’s world, many countries such as Japan, Finland,
Switzerland, Czech Republic, Sweden, South Korea, and Argentina are making
extensive use of nuclear energy to generate electricity. Iran, like certain
other countries, also has a legitimate right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes.
Additionally, Saudi Arabia has recently embarked on
diversifying its energy resources, something which has been verified by the
IAEA. This is considered to be its right as a signatory to the NPT.
However, Iran’s nuclear program has been politicized simply
because it opposes the Israeli apartheid in Palestine. Amid the politicization
of Iran’s nuclear program, Saudi Arabia does not miss any chance to vent its
anger and hatred toward Iran and spread blatant lies regarding Iran’s nuclear
program.
Further enmity and jealousy toward the Islamic Republic of
Iran definitely will not make tribal officials in Riyadh appear strong.
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