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"Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif suggested on Sunday the deal should not be seen as a threat."

"The Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hezbollah, which is allied to Tehran"

"Hezbollah... has also sent fighters to help Assad's forces"

"Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, the Saudi ambassador to London"

"former intelligence minister Prince Turki al-Faisal"

"has signed up to... a more rigorous safeguarding protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency"

"Mark Hibbs, a senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace"

"Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu"

"The conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom is at odds with Iran's revolutionary Shi'ite leaders in struggles across the Arab world"

"Riyadh sees Iran's open support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in fighting a rebellion"

"the lack on an obvious replacement for the U.S. security umbrella in the Gulf"

"Riyadh has worked closely with Paris in recent months on both Syrian and Iranian issues"