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Mohammed bin Salman

محمد بن سلمان
Head of government In government Verified

Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia; de facto ruler since 2017. Architect of Vision 2030 and the regional realignment that followed it.

Country
Saudi Arabia
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of government

Position

4 source documents on file for Mohammed bin Salman (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Mohammed bin Salman that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • What happened in the last 30 years is not Saudi Arabia. What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries.
    2018 April 2018 interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic — the most-cited framing of the modernisation thesis underlying Vision 2030. theatlantic.com · en.wikipedia.org
  • Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we would follow suit as soon as possible.
    2018 A 60 Minutes interview with Norah O'Donnell, aired 19 Mar 2018, ahead of a first official US visit as Crown Prince — on the Saudi response to Iran's nuclear program. cbsnews.com
  • If Iran develops a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.
  • I believe the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good.
    2018 An April 2018 interview drawing a maximalist historical analogy for the rivalry with Tehran, during a high-profile tour of the United States. theatlantic.com
  • We are returning to what we were before — a country of moderate Islam open to all religions and to the world.
    2017 2017 Future Investment Initiative ("Davos in the desert") in Riyadh — the speech that introduced Vision 2030 to a global investor audience. theguardian.com · en.wikipedia.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Mohammed bin Salman [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mbs
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mohammed bin Salman." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mbs.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-mbs,
  title     = {{Mohammed bin Salman}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mbs},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.