Tensions in the Gulf region soared Monday after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, in what it called a “powerful” response to recent U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Saudi Arabia 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 denounced in the "strongest terms" an attack by Iran against Al Udeid base in Qatar, the largest US military facility in the region.
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.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday called for a return to negotiations after Iran carried out a retaliatory strike on a US military base in Qatar.
"The spiral of chaos must end," he wrote on X. "I call on all parties to exercise the utmost restraint, de-escalate and return to the negotiating table."
Speaking to broadcaster France 2, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said, "This is a dangerous escalation in which Iran bears a heavy responsibility. It is a cycle of violence that puts the region at risk of a widespread conflagration, which would have very serious repercussions even here at home."
With AFP
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