[News] Saudi journalist says 'not all attacks' on Gulf coming from Iran, fears US-Israel dragging monarchies into war

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Saudi journalist says 'not all attacks' on Gulf coming from Iran, fears
US-Israel dragging monarchies into war

Iran told Saudi Arabia it was not responsible for a drone attack on an
Aramco facility, calling it ‘an Israeli effort to sabotage regional peace’

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In an interview broadcast on Asharq News on 3 March, Adhwan al-Ahmari, the
editor-in-chief of *Independent Arabia* and the president of the Saudi
Journalists Association, said that “not all attacks” targeting Persian Gulf
nations come from Iran, and stressed fears that the US–Israeli alliance
wants to “trap” Gulf nations into joining the war.

“Some believe this war is an American-Israeli trap to implicate the Gulf
countries and draw them into a confrontation with Iran,” Ahmari said. “This
hypothesis, I think, increases every day.”

“What if the US announces after a week, 10 days, or two weeks that it has
achieved all its goals in this war and that the war is over and then leaves
the Gulf states in an open confrontation?” he asked.

In parallel, *Middle East Eye *(MEE) reported
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-officials-say-israel-carried-out-some-drone-strikes-gulf-energy-sites>
in an exclusive article that Iranian officials said Israel carried out
several drone strikes on energy infrastructure in the Gulf.

The official reportedly declined to specify which incidents were attributed
to Israel, but said at least some of the drone strikes on Gulf
infrastructure were not carried out by Iran.

“I can categorically say that some of the attacks were not carried out by
us [Iran],” the anonymous officials told MEE.

Saudi Arabia has faced several drone and missile attacks in recent days,
including strikes targeting Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Aramco’s Ras
Tanura oil refinery, and the US Embassy in Riyadh.

Two additional Iranian sources told MEE that Israel’s Mossad intelligence
service may have launched some operations from within Iran, claiming
authorities were searching for drone storage facilities allegedly used in
the attacks.

Iranian officials also said Tehran had informed Saudi Arabia it was not
responsible for the strike on the Ras Tanura facility, describing the
incident as “an Israeli effort to sabotage regional peace and alliances
between neighbours.”

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, meanwhile, told Gulf leaders that
Tehran’s military actions were aimed at defending itself after US-Israeli
attacks. “We respect your sovereignty,” he said, adding that regional
security “must be achieved through the collective efforts of its states.”
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