RIYADH- Likening Iran’s leader to Hitler, Saudi Arabia’s crown princewarned in a United States television interview that if Tehran gets anuclear weapon, his country will follow suit.
“Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without adoubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon aspossible,” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in an excerpt of theinterview that aired on Thursday on “CBS This Morning”.
The 32-year-old Prince Mohammed said he referred to Iran’s supreme leaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei as “the new Hitler” because “he wants to expand”.
“He wants to create his own project in the Middle East very much likeHitler who wanted to expand at the time,” he said.
“Many countries around the world and in Europe did not realise howdangerous Hitler was until what happened, happened. I don’t want to see thesame events happening in the Middle East.”
The interview is scheduled to run on CBS’s “60 Minutes” show on Sunday, twodays before the crown prince’s scheduled White House meeting with UnitedStates President Donald Trump. – APP/AFP