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Saudi Arabia plans for fresh round of talks with Iran: Foreign minister
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JEDDAH, 21 February 2022, (TON): Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said “the Kingdom was looking to schedule a fifth round of direct talks with Iran despite a lack of substantive progress in previous rounds.”
Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, said if the 2015 nuclear pact was revived that should be a starting point, not an end point in order to address regional concerns, and that Riyadh remained interested in talks with Iran.
He said “that will indeed require from our neighbors in Iran a serious desire to address the underlying issues that exist ... We hope that there is a serious desire to find a new modus operandi.”
He told the conference “if we see substantive progress on those files, then yes rapprochement is possible. So far we have not seen that.”
Experts believe Iran is only a few weeks away from having enough fissile material to build a nuclear weapon, even if it would take several more complicated steps to create an actual bomb.
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