A fancy Mercedes turned quite a lot of heads last weekend in Jaffa, but not for the normal automotive reasons. The silver luxury car bore the license plates of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Jacky Hugi, the Middle East editor for Israel's Army Radio spotted the plates and posted the picture on Twitter. He wrote he saw it on Friday afternoon in Jaffa's Clock Tower Square. "The nuclear agreement with Iran is starting to prove itself," tweeted Hugi.

Hugi later said someone told him on Facebook they had spoken with the driver in Jerusalem earlier and said he was a Saudi businessman, the Times of Israel reported.

Whether or not the car is really related to the Iranian question, it is still not the first time Israeli and Saudi officials have met to discuss the issue.

In early June, Dore Gold, now the Foreign Ministry's director general, appeared together with a retired general in the Saudi armed forces, Anwar Eshki, at a presentation at the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington. The two met five times, the last coming just before Gold took up his post at the Foreign Ministry.

Gold said the two countries had common interests in opposing Iran. "We’re both allies of the United States,” Mr. Gold said after the presentation. “I hope this is the beginning of more discussion about our common strategic problems.”

As to the car itself, if the owner was given permission to enter the country, then in general he would also be allowed to bring his car.