Saudi Arabia says it has right to take military action against Iran ‘if deemed necessary’

Saudi Arabia reserves the right to take military actions “if deemed necessary” following Iranian attacks on Gulf countries, the kingdom’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan says.

He also says that he doesn’t know when the war will end.

“What little trust there was before has completely been shattered,” the Saudi diplomat says after a meeting between foreign ministers of the Gulf Arab states and others over the Iranian attacks tearing at the wider Middle East.

“The attacks on my country and on my neighboring countries that are not involved in this conflict — that’s all I’m interested in,” Prince Faisal continues. “We’re going to use every lever we have — political, economic, diplomatic and otherwise — to get these attacks to stop.”

He criticizes Iran’s attacks on Riyadh, the capital hosting the meeting.

“I cannot see it as coincidental,” he says. “That’s the clearest signal of how Iran feels about diplomacy. … It tries to pressure its neighbors, and that’s not going to work.”