Middle East Eye
International · 2 hrs ago
Normalisation not discussed during months of Saudi-US nuclear negotiations, sources say
Normalisation not discussed during months of Saudi-US nuclear negotiations, sources say
Since November 2025, the US and Saudi Arabia have been hashing out a civilian nuclear agreement, but in dozens of exchanges between officials, Riyadh’s diplomatic recognition of Israel never once came up, one current and one former US official familiar with the talks told Middle East Eye.
“Normalisation was never listed as a condition,” one of the sources told MEE. “Not once.”
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