(From left to right) This collage of pictures shows Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. — Reuters
Regional countries, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt, denounced Iran’s missile attacks on the US military base in Qatar.
Iran launched missile attacks on the US Al Udeid Air Base in the Gulf state, the largest American military facility in the region. The attack — described by Iran’s military as “devastating and powerful” — marked a major escalation in the widening conflict.
Riyadh lambasted Iran for its “unjustifiable” attack on a US base in Qatar, offering to deploy “all its capabilities” to support Doha, with whom it has had fraught relations in the past.
Riyadh said it “condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the aggression launched by Iran against the sisterly State of Qatar… This is unacceptable and unjustifiable under any circumstances. The Kingdom affirms its solidarity and full support for… Qatar and offers all its capabilities to support the sisterly State of Qatar in any measures it takes,” Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
The United Arab Emirates also denounced in the “strongest terms” an attack by Iran against Al Udeid base in Qatar.
The UAE “condemns in the strongest terms the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s targeting of Al Udeid Air Base in the sisterly State of Qatar, considering it a flagrant violation of Qatar’s sovereignty and airspace,” Abu Dhabi’s foreign ministry said in a statement carried by official news agency WAM.
Egypt called the Iranian attack “a violation of (Qatar’s) sovereignty, a threat to its territorial integrity, and a breach of international law and the United Nations Charter,” according to a statement from the government.
Cairo expressed its deep concern over the rapidly accelerating and dangerous escalation in the region and affirmed its complete rejection of all forms of military escalation or infringement on the sovereignty of states. The country called for the de-escalation and a ceasefire to preserve regional peace and security.
Jordan condemned what it called “aggression launched by Iran against the sisterly state of Qatar.”
Bahrain affirmed its full support and solidarity with Qatar.
Kuwait’s foreign ministry called the Iranian attack a “dangerous escalation” and expressed support for Qatar.
Oman’s foreign ministry condemned the regional escalation, which they said was triggered by Israel and includes the recent Iranian attack.
The office of the Palestinian Authority President also called the attack a “a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the sisterly state of Qatar.”
Iraq’s warned tensions in the region have reached “a dangerous and unprecedented turning point” and called for a return to dialogue.
