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Saudi flays attacks on embassy; Bahrain, Sudan end Tehran ties
RIYADH: The Majlis Al Shura, Shura Consultative Council, of Saudi Arabia has condemned the attacks on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and its Consulate in the city of Mashhad, and threats received by Saudi diplomats there from Iranian groups that stormed the two missions without a move from the Iranian security authorities to protect diplomats and Saudi diplomatic missions, in a clear violation of diplomatic norms and principles of international relations.
The Shura Council supported the decision of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to officially cut relations with Iran, after becoming impatient with Iran’s policies in support of terrorism, its interference in the internal affairs of countries in the region. Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority says all flights to and from Iran have been cancelled.
Bahrain and Sudan said they have cut off ties with Iran, as Saudi Arabia did late on Sunday.
The Kingdom of Bahrain has decided to cut diplomatic relations with Iran and has called upon all members of its mission to leave the Kingdom within 48 hours.
“The Kingdom has also decided to close its diplomatic mission to the Islamic Republic of Iran and the withdraw all members of the mission,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, carried by Bahrain News Agency.
Sudan expels envoy
Sudan has decided to expel the Iranian ambassador from Khartoum and the entire mission, and summoned the Sudanese ambassador from Iran.
Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Crown Prince, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defence of Saudi Arabia received on Monday a telephone call from Minister of State at Sudanese Republic Presidency and Director General of President’s Offices at the Republic Presidency and Cabinet, Lieutenant General Taha Othman Al Hussein.
Hussein expressed the Republic of Sudan’s standing and solidarity with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in confronting terrorism and the implementation of deterrent measures against it.
Flights halted
Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said on Monday night it was cutting all air links with Iran after Riyadh severed diplomatic ties with Tehran.
The authority said that following the kingdom’s decision to cut diplomatic relations, it had informed all airlines operating in Saudi Arabia it was “suspending and preventing all their flights to and from Iran,” according to a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
Call for restraint
The United States and Germany called for restraint, while Russia offered to mediate an end to the dispute.
Earlier in the day, Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir said in an interview that Tehran was responsible for rising tensions. Insisting Riyadh would react to “Iranian aggression,” Jubeir accused Tehran of despatching fighters to Arab countries and plotting attacks inside the kingdom and its Gulf neighbours.
“There is no escalation on the part of Saudi Arabia. Our moves are all reactive. It is the Iranians who went into Lebanon. It is the Iranians who sent their Qods Force and their Revolutionary Guards into Syria,” he said.
In a statement read by Deputy Speaker of the Council, Dr Mohammed Bin Amin Al Jafri, during its 7th ordinary session held in Riyadh on Monday, the Council condemned the hostile statements made by a number of Iranian regime officials against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, reported the Saudi Press Agency, SPA.
The Shura Council also stressed its support for all measures taken by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, to protect the security of the Kingdom and the region.
WAM / Agencies
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