Saudi Arabia has called for emergency regional talks to discuss mounting Gulf tensions, saying that it does not want war with Iran but is ready to defend itself.
It comes days after mysterious sabotage attacks on several tankers in highly sensitive Gulf waters and drone strikes on a Saudi crude pipeline by Yemen rebels who Riyadh claimed were acting on Iranian orders.
The United States has also deployed an aircraft carrier and bombers to the Gulf over alleged threats from Iran.
King Salman invited Gulf leaders and Arab League member states to two emergency summits in Mecca on May 30 to discuss recent “aggressions and their consequences”, the kingdom’s official.
Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, said his country does not want to go to war with Iran but would defend itself.
