New Delhi, July 23 -- WASHINGTON - Less than 24 hours after the Department of Energy announced a multi-billion-dollar civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social to say the deal was off the table unless Riyadh agreed to join the Abraham Accords, inserting a condition that had not been part of the agreement and that caught Saudi officials off guard.

a structure to develop civilian nuclear energy in the world's largest oil exporter, with American contractors as the primary beneficiaries.

The cooperation framework itself had been described by the DOE as a "peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement" alongside a bilateral safeguard agreement, designed to allow Saudi Arabia to build civilian nucl...