Manama: Three Gulf ministers on Monday took to Twitter to blast Iran and its support for the Houthi militia, warning of their growing dangers and calling for strong and unshakable reactions.
In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat said that his country reserves the right to respond in the appropriate manner at the appropriate time to the antagonistic attitudes by the Iranian regime.
“We stress our zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism and its patrons,” Adel Al Jubeir posted to his 2,160, 000 followers on the microblogging site.
“The Iranian terrorism continues to terrorise the innocent, kill children and violate international law. Every day it becomes clears that the Houthi militia is a terrorist tool to destroy Yemen.”
Al Jubeir added that “Iran’s interference in the region is detrimental to the security of its neighbours and affects international peace and security.
“We will not tolerate any infringement on our national security,” he stressed.
In Manama, Bahrain’s foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa posted that Iran was the real threat to the region.
“We are fully aware that the Republic of Iran, with its party [Hezbollah], its mobilisation [Popular Mobilization Forces] and its brigades is the real threat to the region as a whole,” he said. “Its actions confirm the need to curb it and remove its danger.”
In Abu Dhabi, Dr. Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said the
Houthi's failed targeting of Riyadh with Iranian ballistic missiles was a dangerous development that puts priorities in perspective.
“The most pressing priority is that the danger of an Iranian expansion is the top challenge,” he posted.
“The danger of the Houthi [militia] being transformed into a new Hezbollah is right before our eyes. Its rejection of the political solution recently confirms that there can be no room for flexibility now. Choosing to escalate the situation will eventually hurt it.”
Gargash added that The Iranian Houthi ballistic attack on Riyadh makes the Iranian ballistic missile issue an urgent priority.
“We will not accept to be under the threat of this programme. In this context it is important to strengthen the unified position of the Gulf [Gulf Cooperation Council] towards the Iranian threat and its Houthi agent. This is neither the time nor the place for confused positions or neutral stances.”
