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President Donald Trump has sent Congress a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil ​nuclear energy while insisting the pact will only be approved if the kingdom normalizes ‌relations with Israel, a U.S. administration official told Reuters on Tuesday.

The agreement, which was reached in July and would allow U.S. companies to export civilian nuclear technology to the ​kingdom, was sent to Congress on Monday, according to the U.S. ​official, who declined to be identified.

The Saudi embassy in Washington ⁠did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It was not clear ​how Trump expects sending the nuclear deal to Congress, which has 90 ​session days to consider it, will advance his objectives.

"The president's position has not changed that the agreement will only move forward if Saudi Arabia joins the Abraham Accords," the ​U.S. official said in an email, referring to U.S.-brokered agreements between Israel ​and Arab and Muslim-majority nations to normalize relations.

Those accords, reached in 2020 and 2021, were ‌between ⁠Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.

Days after agreeing to the Saudi nuclear deal in July, Trump, who worked on a similar pact during his first term, set normalization as a condition for it to go into effect.

Former ​President Joe Biden also ​pushed for a ⁠nuclear deal and wanted to tie it to the accords. Diplomats thought Riyadh was close to normalizing relations ​with Israel in 2023, but the start of Israel's war ​on Gaza ⁠in October 2023 changed the landscape.

Saudi Arabia has demanded an irreversible path to a Palestinian state before recognizing Israel.

The 30-year nuclear deal calls for the ⁠construction of ​AP1000 reactors, a project worth tens of ​billions of dollars that would benefit Westinghouse, jointly owned by Canada-based Cameco (CCO.TO) and Brookfield Asset Management (BAM.N).