Saudi Arabia reserves the right to act militarily against Iran and any trust with Tehran has been shattered, the Saudi foreign minister said early on Thursday, after Riyadh was targeted by Iranian ballistic missiles.
Iran accused Israel of striking its facilities in the huge South Pars gas field on Wednesday in a major escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war that sent oil prices shooting higher, and retaliated by vowing attacks on oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf, firing missiles at Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
In the harshest comments to come out of the Gulf kingdom in nearly three weeks of war, Farhan accused Iran of premeditated hostile actions against its neighbours, both directly and via an array of regional proxies which he urged Tehran to reign in.
They’ll wait until it’s bombed flat, then kill some civilians.
Is Saudi Arabia allowing strikes from bases on their soil into Iran? If not, then from a legal/moral point of view Saudi Arabia is completely in the right, since Iran has attacked Saudi Arabia first.
Yes their airspace and US military bases are used for offensive attacks on Iran. These US puppet state monarchries are neutered. Switzerland, Spain, Japan, even France those are christians and athiests they stood up to Trump and decalred they will not allow the US to use their airports, military bases or even airspace for attacks on Iran just for the US to allow them to rule in an absulote monarchy dictatorships. These neutered gulf dictatorships meanwhile only have the power to jail and torture their citizens and stay in power licking Trump boots even after paying him trillions in investments, bribes and board of peace memberships and in “defence” contracts
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That stance makes absolutely no sense. If a nation is invading you the military bases belonging to that nation are valid legal targets.
“Oh but don’t worry these bases aren’t being used to attack you, they just hold a bunch of personnel and equipment that we can easily move to use against you, but you’re definently not allowed to attack those”
Of course to get to those they must also trespass in Saudi Arabia’s airspace which then justifies Saudi Arabia retaliating against Iran. War is messy like that
Well yes and not - but that is how international law works. As an analogy, Russia is not attacking tanks heading through the EU to Ukraine, before they pass the border into Ukraine.
There has to be a consensus of what constitutes a legal target. Or the whole world would be anarchy.
That is absolutely a legal target for Russia too. It would also be suicidal and trigger article 5 of NATO.
Just because something is not a war crime to do doesn’t make it a smart thing to do.
Not according to international law, as I understand it.
I mean they are all evidence suggests it but even if not directly attack from the bases in their country they are allowing the us to run radar and electronic warfare and refueling and on and on no even question about that.
Good content but that period needs friends. It’s too much sentence for just one break.
NATO is sending radar intel to Ukraine too - is NATO waging war on Russia? By international law, I would say not.
Russia is also sending satellite into to Iran. Also not an act of war.
It seems quite important to me that there is a consensus on what constitutes an act of war. Otherwise everything becomes a potential act of war, no meaningful limits or red lines people know not to cross, with corresponding escalation risks.