RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – A six-nation Middle Eastern alliance agreed Saturday to characterize the recent attack on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran as an act of terror, strong language that marks an even further escalation in a tiff that has embroiled the region for days CNN reported, Jan. 9th, 2016.
Foreign ministers from the six Gulf Cooperation Council met in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, after which the alliance’s Secretary-General Abdul Latif Zayani read a statement indicating that agreed to label last weekend’s incident as terrorism.
It also suggests that countries in the region aren’t acceding to requests from the United Nations, United States and other officials to tone down their rhetoric and refocus on other issues, like peacefully ending Syria’s civil war and dealing with ISIS.
Iranian regime mobs stormed and set ablaze the Saudi embassy in Tehran last Saturday, setting off a regional and international diplomatic raw.
That attack spurred Saudi Arabia to sever official ties with Iran, its longtime regional rival. Several other countries joined in.