Arab world condemns Israeli attack on Iran, expresses concern of wider conflict

cairo — 

Arab governments reacted with mostly tepid condemnation of Israeli strikes overnight connected Iran, expressing interest that a wider struggle could erupt, but avoiding beardown connection oregon taking immoderate factual enactment to protestation the Israeli strikes.

Iranian officials and authorities media denied that Israeli strikes connected respective locations successful the state did superior harm to infrastructure, claiming that Iranian aerial defenses had "stopped a fig of Israeli missiles."

Tehran did admit, however, that 2 soldiers were killed successful strikes connected Iranian subject facilities. Iranian media showed video to rebut reports that large lipid facilities had been deed successful the strikes.

In the Arab world, some governments and media sided with Tehran to condemn the Israeli strikes, albeit avoiding beardown language. The Saudi-owned Asharq Al Awsat paper posted a header that Arab states "condemn Israeli strikes connected Iran [as a] breach of planetary law."

Saudi Arabia and Iran person been connected the other sides of a fig of Middle Eastern conflicts successful caller years, astir notably successful Yemen, Syria and Iraq, and relations betwixt the 2 countries stay strained.

The Saudi overseas ministry — successful a connection carried by the Saudi property bureau — called connected "all parties to usage the highest grade of self-restraint to debar further escalation," informing against the "dangers of continuing subject conflicts successful the region."

Riyadh besides urged planetary powerbrokers to workout their work to "lessen tensions" successful the Middle East.

Saudi-owned al Arabia TV showed Iranians successful Tehran expressing their views astir the Israeli strikes, with 1 middle-aged antheral expressing alleviation the "strikes were implicit without having resulted successful a large catastrophe," and a young pistillate insisting that she "doesn't deliberation that the Israeli strikes [overnight] would ignite a larger conflict."

In Cairo, the Egyptian overseas ministry issued a connection saying that Egypt is "extremely disquieted astir the unsafe and widening escalation successful the Middle East."

Egypt and Iran person not had adjacent relations successful caller years, and they person remained strained since the authorities of erstwhile Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi was toppled much than a decennary ago.

Egypt besides condemned "any actions that endanger stableness successful the region." Egypt replaced seasoned Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri respective months ago, and his replacement, Badr Abdel Atti, has taken a much strident code against Israel than his predecessor.

Additionally, the Egyptian authorities precocious replaced seasoned quality main Abbas Kamel, who had conducted galore mediation sessions with Israeli officials successful assorted conflicts successful caller years, astir notably the Gaza struggle that erupted successful October of past year.

The Sultanate of Oman, which has traditionally enjoyed adjacent ties with Iran, "strongly condemned the Israeli strikes connected Iran," calling them "a grievous breach of Iranian sovereignty." The sultanate, which has conducted back-channel negotiations successful caller years betwixt Iran and Western governments, including the U.S., urged the planetary assemblage to "take effectual enactment to halt aggression and enactment an extremity to what it called the "outrageous encroachment of the territory of determination states."

Qatar's overseas ministry besides condemned the Israeli strikes connected Iran, urging "self-restraint and dialog to debar further destabilizing the region."

Qatar, similar Egypt and Oman, has acted arsenic a mediator successful conflicts involving Iran and its determination allies successful caller years, astir notably the caller and ongoing struggle successful Gaza.