Alireza Enayati says relations with Saudi Arabia are ‘progressing naturally’ and he’s in direct contact with Saudi officers.
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Iran’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia denied Tehran is accountable for assaults on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure, saying if it was behind the strikes, it will have introduced it.
Alireza Enayati didn’t recommend who carried out the assaults, however added Iran is just attacking United States and Israeli army targets and pursuits throughout the ongoing war, Reuters information company quoted him as saying on Sunday.
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After the US and Israel launched assaults on Iran on the finish of February, Tehran retaliated towards US and Israeli army property, together with in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Final week, the Ras Tanura oil refinery was pressured to cease operations after particles from a drone induced a small fireplace. Tried assaults have been additionally reported on the Shaybah oilfield within the desert close to the border with the UAE.
To date, Saudi Arabia’s Defence Ministry has not blamed anybody for the assaults.
Enayati mentioned he’s in direct contact with Saudi officers, explaining that relations are “progressing naturally” in lots of areas.
Talks included Saudi Arabia’s publicly acknowledged place that its land, sea, and air wouldn’t be used to focus on Iran. He didn’t elaborate.
Iran and Saudi Arabia re-established diplomatic relations in 2023, in a deal brokered by China, that noticed the 2 sides, which backed rival teams throughout the area, agree on a brand new chapter in bilateral relations.
‘Reliance on exterior powers’
Enayati reiterated to the Gulf states that the warfare “has been imposed on us and the area” following coordinated US and Israeli assaults.
Requested in regards to the assaults on Gulf nations, Enayati replied: “We’re neighbours, and we can’t do with out one another; we are going to want a severe assessment.”
“What the area has witnessed over the previous 5 a long time is the results of an exclusionary strategy and an extreme reliance on exterior powers,” he mentioned, calling for deeper ties between the Gulf Cooperation Council’s six members together with Iraq and Iran.
Iran’s International Minister Abbas Araghchi additionally denied his nation is concentrating on civilian or residential areas within the Center East, and mentioned Tehran is able to type a committee with its neighbours to research the accountability for such strikes.
To date, the UAE, which normalised relations with Israel in 2020, has confronted the brunt of Iran’s assaults, with US bases and oil refineries closely focused.
Whereas all international locations focused have strongly condemned Iran’s missile and drone strikes, regional sources say there stays rising frustration at the US for dragging them right into a warfare they didn’t join however at the moment are paying the heaviest worth for, Reuters reported.
Enayati mentioned to resolve the battle, the US and Israel must cease their assaults, and worldwide safety ensures to stop future “aggression” should be given.
Paul Musgrave, affiliate professor at Georgetown College in Qatar, mentioned the administration of US President Donald Trump has misplaced a lot of its leverage within the area, and the US engaged within the mistaken battle on the mistaken second, with out correct planning.
Iran’s technique, in the meantime, now appears to be “not who has an even bigger bomb or greater munitions, however who has the best threshold for ache”, Musgrave advised Al Jazeera.
