Crown Prince: No one on earth can make Vision 2030 fail

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman asserted that the Kingdom’s ambitious Vision 2030 will never fail.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Atlantic magazine, he said: “There are a lot of people who want to be sure that our project, Saudi Arabia's project today, Vision 2030, fails. But they can’t touch it. It will never fail. No one on the whole world has the power to make it fail. You can slow it, say by five percent. That's the maximum that you can do. But more than that—no one can do anything. There are a few groups — I don't want to point fingers — but anyone with good knowledge can make the link between groups in the West, and groups in the Middle East, who have interests in seeing us fail."

The Crown Prince said that reforms in the Kingdom has not been done for credit from anyone.

"We’re not doing this (women's reforms) for credit. We don't care. We do what we do for us as Saudis. You know, if you look at it from the right angle – well, thank you very much. If you don't care, it's up to you," the Crown Prince said.

Referring to the opening the Kingdom to tourism and reforms, he said: If I'm going to get the employment rate down, and tourism could create one million jobs in Saudi Arabia, that means if I can keep $30 billion from leaving Saudi Arabia, and most of it stays in Saudi Arabia, so Saudis don't travel as much as they do, that means, I have to do it. They're going to do it anyway outside of Saudi Arabia. So we have a third thing to say: “Choose a lesser sin rather than a bigger sin.”