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<div class="gmail-inner-article-top"><h1 class="gmail-">Saudi journalist says 'not all attacks' on Gulf coming from Iran, fears US-Israel dragging monarchies into war</h1><p class="gmail-">Iran
told Saudi Arabia it was not responsible for a drone attack on an
Aramco facility, calling it \u2018an Israeli effort to sabotage regional
peace\u2019
</p><div class="gmail-another-name"><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9" style="color:rgb(164,4,4)">News Desk</a></p></div><div class="gmail-another-name" style="margin-top:16px"><p><span style="color:rgb(84,88,94)">MAR 5, 2026 - </span><font size="1"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/saudi-journalist-says-not-all-attacks-on-gulf-coming-from-iran-fears-us-israel-dragging-monarchies-into-war">https://thecradle.co/articles/saudi-journalist-says-not-all-attacks-on-gulf-coming-from-iran-fears-us-israel-dragging-monarchies-into-war</a></font></p></div></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-img"><img src="https://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/ca1076a2-18ab-11f1-ae6c-00163e02c055.webp" alt="" width="408" height="230" style="margin-right: 0px;"><span>(Phto credit: Reuters/Amr Alfiky)</span></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-content"><div class="gmail-row"><div class="gmail-col-md-8 gmail-col-sm-7"><div class="gmail-article-content"><span class="gmail-article-body"><p><span style="background-color:transparent">In an interview broadcast on Asharq News on 3 March, Adhwan al-Ahmari, the editor-in-chief of <i>Independent Arabia</i>
and the president of the Saudi Journalists Association, said that \u201cnot
all attacks\u201d targeting Persian Gulf nations come from Iran, and stressed
fears that the US\u2013Israeli alliance wants to \u201ctrap\u201d Gulf nations into
joining the war.</span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent">\u201cSome
believe this war is an American-Israeli trap to implicate the Gulf
countries and draw them into a confrontation with Iran,\u201d Ahmari said.
\u201cThis hypothesis, I think, increases every day.\u201d</span></p><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div> <p><span style="background-color:transparent">\u201cWhat
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?\u201d he asked.</span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent">In parallel, <i>Middle East Eye </i>(MEE) </span><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-officials-say-israel-carried-out-some-drone-strikes-gulf-energy-sites"><span style="background-color:transparent">reported</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent">
in an exclusive article that Iranian officials said Israel carried out
several drone strikes on energy infrastructure in the Gulf.</span></p><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div> <p><span style="background-color:transparent">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. </span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent">\u201cI can categorically say that some of the attacks were not carried out by us [Iran],\u201d the anonymous officials told MEE.</span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent">Saudi
Arabia has faced several drone and missile attacks in recent days,
including strikes targeting Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Aramco\u2019s Ras
Tanura oil refinery, and the US Embassy in Riyadh.</span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent">Two
additional Iranian sources told MEE that Israel\u2019s Mossad intelligence
service may have launched some operations from within Iran, claiming
authorities were searching for drone storage facilities allegedly used
in the attacks.</span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent">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 \u201can Israeli effort to sabotage regional peace and alliances
between neighbours.\u201d</span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent">Iranian
President Masoud Pezeshkian, meanwhile, told Gulf leaders that Tehran\u2019s
military actions were aimed at defending itself after US-Israeli
attacks. \u201cWe respect your sovereignty,\u201d he said, adding that regional
security \u201cmust be achieved through the collective efforts of its
states.\u201d</span></p></span></div></div></div></div>
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