29 October 2018

Israel sells spy systems to Saudi Arabia under a $250 million deal

Saudi Arabia and Israel have reached an estimated $250-million deal according to which Israel will supply the kingdom with espionage technologies, a news from Israeli Newspaper The Jerusalem Post says, citing an exclusive report by the United Arab Emirate news website Al-Khaleej. It adds: “some of the spy systems, which are the most sophisticated systems Israel has ever sold to any Arab country, have already been transferred to Saudi Arabia and put into use after a Saudi technical team received training in operating them”. The deal was apparently reached after secret meetings between Saudi and Israeli officials took place in Washington and London through European and Northern-American mediators. It also includes further plans to reach agreements on broad military cooperation between the two countries, whose diplomatic ties, rather inexistent until the moment, are raising in the context of deterring Iran. Nevertheless, neither Tel Aviv nor Saudi Arabia have confirmed the report’s findings.

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