Former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, revealed on Saturday that Saudi Arabia desires the US to undertake a harder stance in opposition to Iran as a way to normalise its ties with Israel.
“I am satisfied there will probably be many extra international locations becoming a member of the Abraham Accords and, sooner or later, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will as effectively,” Pompeo mentioned in an interview with the Telegraph.
He added: “There are a pair different items to the puzzle that they should see—they should see robust American management, they should see an America that they know will help them, most notably with respect to the problem introduced by Iran.”
Pompeo claimed: “The Biden Administration inside weeks had Iranian rockets flying into Israel from the Gaza Strip and as we speak, this week for positive, you may have Iranian missiles flying from Yemen into Saudi Arabia.
“These aren’t the circumstances that breed the capability for nations to make such an historic choice to enter an settlement such because the Abraham Accords.”
Pompeo was a part of the US administration which brokered Abraham Accords, which noticed 4 Arab international locations normalise ties with Israel—the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
On the time, Saudi Arabia’s International Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, mentioned that the Kingdom remained open to totally normalise ties with Israel on the situation of a Palestinian State and a peace plan between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
