THE NIGHTMARE IS COMING TRUE – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:  Many observers predicted that our appeasement of Iran would lead directly to a nuclear arms race in the Mideast.   The first steps have apparently been taken.  From the Times of Israel: 

Saudi Arabia has reached out to its ally Pakistan to acquire “off-the-shelf” atomic weapons as a nuclear arms race begins to shape up with Shiite rival Iran, US sources said.

“For the Saudis the moment has come,” a former US defense official told the UK’s Sunday Times. “There has been a longstanding agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward.”

The anonymous former official said the US did not believe that “any actual weaponry has been transferred yet,” but declared that “the Saudis mean what they say and they will do what they say.”

Tensions between Tehran and the kingdom have grown in the past few months as Saudi Arabia stepped up its air campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. King Salman of Saudi Arabia refused an invitation to attend a landmark summit hosted by US President Barack Obama last week, amid ongoing angst over US-led nuclear talks with Iran.

Former Saudi intelligence head Prince Turki bin Faisal expressed the kingdom’s desire for a nuclear weapon last month at the Asan Plenum, a conference held by the South Korean-based Asan Institute for Policy Studies. “Whatever the Iranians have, we will have, too,” he said, according to The New York Times.

Faisal also warned that the Iranian nuclear deal “opens the door to nuclear proliferation, not closes it, as was the initial intention.”

COMMENT:  And so the nuclear arms race begins.  And a Saudi bomb, in turn, will lead to nuclear ambitions by Egypt and the Gulf states.

Iran, seeing what is happening, will only increase its clandestine nuclear activities.  And Barack Obama will leave office in the meantime, with serious suggestions that he be placed on Mount Rushmore.

May 18, 2015