David E. Sanger

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The Daily · Why Is the U.S. Building the Saudi Nuclear Program While Destroying Iran’s? · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

So they may well demand that they get similar rights.

And imagine other countries that we want to go sign nuclear deals with

In the future, they're going to say, well, you did this for the Saudis, so of course you'll do this for us.

Egypt would love to have nuclear power.

Many other countries would.

But the question is, do you make them sign on to the kind of standards that the Bush and Obama administrations insisted on for the UAE?

Or do they get the same deal that the Saudis just got?

Well, these agreements have to go in front of Congress.

not just the Senate, but both houses.

And Congress has 90 days to vote a resolution of disapproval of the agreement.

Now, it's conceivable that such a disapproval vote might pass, particularly if there's a new Congress that's voting on it.

We'll have to see after the elections.

But even then, the president could veto the resolution.

And to override the veto, you'd need two-thirds.

And it's not clear that those votes would be there.

So if you had to ask me to guess today, I would guess that President Trump is going to get this through.

I think you're exactly right, Rachel.

And the other argument that the Iranians may make is that this deal shows how discriminatory the nuclear rules of the road are.

And the fact of the matter is, we have different rules for our friends and for our adversaries.

And while it doesn't look that way on paper, no one in the United States complains to Israel about the fact that it never signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and is widely known to have an arsenal of 100 weapons.

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