Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah privately urged the United States to do them all a favor where Iran and Ahmadinejad were concerned and “cut off the head of the snake.”2 A nuclear-armed Iran threatened the peace of the entire region, not just Israel, Mohammad bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi said. If Iran got the bomb, “all hell will break loose,” he said, warning that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey would all seek nuclear weapons to maintain parity.
