Three days after exiting the Iran nuclear deal, the White House condemned “Iranian aggression” against Saudi Arabia and Israel following two ballistic missiles targeting the Kingdom this week and rockets allegedly fired by Iranian proxies at the Golan Heights.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement on Friday accusing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of pouring “resources into exporting destabilising influence throughout the Middle East, even as the Iranian people are victims of a struggling economy”.
JUST IN: White House Statement condemning #Iran IRGC + Proxy attacks on both Israel & #Saudi. First joint condemnation I have seen in one statement... pic.twitter.com/I45qW17Tzd
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) May 11, 2018
For the first time condemning attacks on Saudi and Israel in one statement, it said that the “IRGC has fired rockets at Israeli citizens, and Iran’s proxies in Yemen have launched a ballistic missile at Riyadh.”
These actions, it added, are “proof that the Iranian regime’s reckless actions pose a severe threat to regional peace and security.”
The statement called for responsible nations to bring pressure on Iran to change this “dangerous” behaviour.
Two ballistic missiles targeted Saudi Arabia this week. One was aimed at the capital Riyadh on Wednesday and one at Jazan on Friday. Both were intercepted, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Earlier this week, a senior US official told The National that Washington is “seeking a collective response” to counter Iran’s regional activities.
Also on Friday, Senior Director for Strategic Assessment at the national security council Victoria Coates hailed the US efforts in bringing the region together in countering Iran.
“It’s so important to see a Gulf nation, an Arab nation like Bahrain come out, recognise Israel as a country, which is something, and then a country that has the right to defend itself against a country like Iran” she said referencing a tweet by Bahrain’s foreign minister.
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