“Officials in Riyadh hope this deal… will finally pressure the Biden administration to [grant] the Kingdom concrete U.S. security guarantees including reliable access to U.S. arms. Riyadh still prefers America as its strongest ally, but, ‘We have to accept reality and figure a way to live with a nuclear Iran. So, we will go from hostile relations to better relations.'”

-Karen Elliott House, Senior Fellow at Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Significance of the Iran-Saudi Arabia Agreement Brokered by China [Belfer Center]