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HEADLINE: Iran's Nuclear Enrichment Debate and the Saudi-Pakistan Weapons Deal GUEST NAME: Henry Sokolski SUMMARY: Henry Sokolski analyzes Iran's claim of an NPT right to enrichment. He also warns about a new, unacknowledged arrangement potentially giv

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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HEADLINE: Iran's Nuclear Enrichment Debate and the Saudi-Pakistan Weapons Deal
GUEST NAME: Henry Sokolski
SUMMARY: Henry Sokolski analyzes Iran's claim of an NPT right to enrichment. He also warns about a new, unacknowledged arrangement potentially giving Saudi Arabia access to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
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I'm John Batchel with my colleague, Henry Sikolsky, the Executive Director of Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center. We're told in the news that Saudi Arabia has come to an arrangement

0:34.6

with Pakistan and the military elite in Pakistan, in some

0:40.2

fashion no longer to be kept out of the rooms where the nuclear weapons are kept in Pakistan.

0:48.7

Is that accurate, Henry?

0:51.8

The deal is quite broad and anodyne on sheets of paper it was explained by the Pakistani

1:01.7

defense minister in a rather disturbing way and that is that so many years ago and for so many

1:09.3

years the Saudis have been bankrolling the Pakistani nuclear weapons program.

1:14.3

They're asking for the quid pro quo now, and he made it very clear that if nuclear weapons were needed, they would be available for Saudi Arabia's defense.

1:28.5

Recently, we had a border tangle in Kashmir, and at some point in the exchange of gunfire,

1:36.6

nuclear weapons were in the question mark about what is to be done.

1:40.7

I believe there is the possibility that the facilities were damaged. To your knowledge,

1:46.0

is Pakistan needs Saudi Arabia in order to maintain its security? They're out of money in all

1:52.5

areas. Are they out of money in maintaining their arsenal? I don't know about the money in the

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