However, the Foreign Ministry posted a carefully worded message on its Twitter account today morning, warning citizens to avoid visiting “any website with the aim of getting a document or leaked information that could be untrue and aims to harm the nation”.
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Saudi diplomats in Khartoum said Iran sent nuclear equipment to Sudan in 2012, including centrifuges.
The cables show Riyadh often seems anxious about any advantage for Tehran: one document explains that if an Arab summit conference were held as scheduled in Baghdad in 2012, it would mean “handing Iraq to Iran”.
The leaked documents expose the Saudi geopolitical relation to its neighboring countries.
The memo, dated February 2012 and marked as “very secret”, was leaked last week by the WikiLeaks groups along with what it claimed were 60,000 other official Saudi communications over the weekend. It doesn’t also give out any details on how the equipment might have been shipped, or what Sudan planned to do with it.
Another document revealed that the Saudi government had offered the Egyptian government under ousted President Mohamed Morsi $10 billion in exchange for the release of Egypt’s dictator and longtime Saudi ally Hosni Mubarak. There have been no previous reports of Iran sending nuclear equipment to Sudan, which has no known nuclear program.
Iran and P5+1 group (China, Russia, France, Britain, and the United States plus Germany) are engaged in intense nuclear talks as the June 30 deadline for sealing a final nuclear deal approaches. Albawaba reported Saudi Arabia dismissed the documents as false.
The negotiations have hit an impasse partly over the question of how much access the global Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors should have to Iranian military sites.
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He says he told the officials that when the sanctions were imposed, the students’ status would be terminated and they would be required to return to their home country nearly immediately.
