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.

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    7 hours ago

    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.

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      5 hours ago

      radar and electronic warfare and refueling and on and on

      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.