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10.09.26 - 12:36
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US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Clears Vienna Hurdle As Congress Review Continues (ZeroHedge)
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US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Clears Vienna Hurdle As Congress Review Continues
Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com,
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi says Saudi Arabia won't sign the Additional Protocol but will accept oversight powers over enrichment, conversion and reprocessing that closely mirror it.
The underlying US-Saudi 123 agreement, signed July 22, opens a path to domestic uranium enrichment after a two-year study, a break from the UAE's enrichment-free 'gold standard.'
Congress is 90 days into reviewing the deal, with Democrats and nonproliferation groups pushing back and two side letters still classified.
A planned nuclear cooperation deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia won't include the toughest inspection regime the U.N.'s atomic watchdog has to offer, but it's going to come close on the activities that matter most.
That's the picture International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi laid out Monday in Vienna, speaking to reporters during the agency's ...
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10.09.26 - 05:30
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Hyped Mecca Joint Defense Pact Is MIA After Houthis Targeted Four Saudi Cities (ZeroHedge)
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Hyped Mecca Joint Defense Pact Is MIA After Houthis Targeted Four Saudi Cities
Saudi Arabia got pummeled by cross-border Houthi ballistic missiles and drones on Tuesday, where a reported four Saudi cities were targeted.
...So what about those much hyped Mecca Defense accords that were just signed last month? The pact between Riyadh, Islamabad, and Ankara has been likened to NATO Article 5, where an attack on one is an 'attack on all'. These countries' own officials have in many cases advanced this interpretation.
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As the Saudi-Yemen war heats up again, Pakistan is threatening just such a triggering of the Mecca Defense Pact, but so far this has stopped at mere words.
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif threatened in Wednesday remarks that the Ansarallah attacks "could trigger" the defense agreement.
"Under the trilateral agreement, any aggression against any of the three [countries] is regarded as an aggression against all. There is no ambiguity about that,&qu...
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08.09.26 - 17:42
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Saudi Arabia Halts Energy Sites as Houthis Claim New Attacks (Bloomberg)
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Saudi Arabia halted several energy facilities in the south, as the Iran-backed Houthi militants claimed fresh strikes on the kingdom. The Yemen-based Houthis said they targeted Saudi Aramco's facilities in Abha, Najran and Jazan with ballistic missiles and drones, the group's military spokesperson said in a statement. The attacks caused fires at several locations, and efforts were ongoing to contain the blazes, the Saudi energy ministry said on X, without naming the facilities.
While the targets appear to include infrastructure that supply the local Saudi demand, repeated attacks on Jazan, where a major refinery is located, are a concern for the oil market. For the latest, we speak with Becca Wasser, Defense Lead for Bloomberg Economics. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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08.09.26 - 16:39
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Houthis Pummel Southwest Saudi Arabia With Ballistic Missiles, As Yemen Air & Ground War Erupts (ZeroHedge)
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Houthis Pummel Southwest Saudi Arabia With Ballistic Missiles, As Yemen Air & Ground War Erupts
The heaviest fighting since the Iran war began is taking place in Yemen currently, also involving significant overnight attacks on Saudi energy and military sites by the Houthis.
The Houthis have since unveiled new operations, in a Tuesday statement saying the Iran-aligned group is targeting critical Saudi oil and military infrastructure. Widely circulating local videos suggest the attacks on multiple sites were in some case simultaneous and overwhelming.
"In response to this brutal aggression and in confronting comprehensive escalation with comprehensive escalation, the YAF carried out a large-scale … operation, targeting Aramco facilities in Abha and Najran, the Economic City, Aramco in Jizan, and Khamis Mushait Air Base, using dozens of ballistic missiles and drones," said the Houthi statement.
Yemen state media/The Independent: Smoke billows from burning trucks on Yemen-Saudi border...
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