{"id":220372,"date":"2026-07-23T22:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/220372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:25:10","slug":"trump-throws-newly-signed-saudi-nuclear-deal-into-doubt-with-israel-recognition-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/220372\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump throws newly signed Saudi nuclear deal into doubt with Israel recognition demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House threw a US-Saudi Arabia nuclear deal into question on Thursday, a day <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3361515\/us-unveils-civilian-nuclear-deal-saudi-arabia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">after it was signed<\/a>, emphasising that it depended on the oil-rich Gulf country recognising Israel under a 2020 diplomatic initiative.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe Civil Nuclear Deal \u2026 will be approved, but is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords,\u201d US President Donald Trump wrote on social media, adding that the deal would not include enrichment and involve only non-military use of nuclear energy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The demand immediately cast doubt on the agreement because Riyadh has long refused to normalise relations with Israel without a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood, a position that has hardened since the Gaza war.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The added stipulation appeared designed to appease increasingly wary lawmakers and voters, analysts said, as his Mideast war drags on, justified as essential to prevent nuclear proliferation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on Trump\u2019s messaging a few hours later.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cLook, this is a condition that the president has spoken about many times with our Gulf and Arab allies,\u201d Leavitt said at a press briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House threw a US-Saudi Arabia nuclear deal into question on Thursday, a day after it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[5291,41,38,496,1411,34,37,1772,49,587,50,153,1537,3651],"class_list":["post-220372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-abraham-accords","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-karoline-leavitt","tag-middle-east","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-us","tag-white-house","tag-yanbu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116971642692222178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}