‘TERRORIST IRANIAN REGIME’ MUST BE CHECKED; SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTER URGES FINANCIAL PRESSURE
Although he had
planned to speak about Saudi Arabia’s ongoing economic development and reforms
and other issues, Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf said that unfortunately, the
“reprehensible attacks” against the Kingdom’s oil facilities less than two
weeks ago demanded attention and a unified international response.
He said that the
firing of 25 cruise missiles and drones that nearly cut oil production in Saudi
Arabia by half was “a flagrant violation of international laws and
regulations”, as well as “an attack on international peace and security and a
significant threat to oil supplies”.
“We invited UN and
international experts to pin down the perpetrator,” he said, claiming that
“whoever stood behind these attacks is also responsible for other assaults on
commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman, the Abha Airport and the Shaybah oil
field.” He maintained that the perpetrator “is a vile and cowardly regime,
which hides behind its affiliated militias” that views his State and its people
“only as a battlefield to achieve its subversive agenda”. The Foreign Minister
said, “we have known that regime for 40 years” and that it has carried out
terrorist acts inside Saudi Arabia, in Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon and Europe.
But the latest attacks
and aggression “have exposed the Iranian regime before the entire world”, he
stated, calling it “a rogue and terrorist system that continues to threaten
international peace and security”. As
such, he saw the attacks as “a real test of the international community’s
will”, upholding that the UN and “the entire world” faces a moral
responsibility to take a unified position, or an unknown future would befall
the region, international peace, energy supplies and the world economy. “The reality is that this bloodthirsty regime
is no longer menacing the peoples of the region only, it is doing so to the
whole world”, he stressed.
ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE
KINGDOM
Mr. Al-Assaf suggested
the Assembly look into other crimes committed by Iran, such as in Syria where
it claimed more than half a million lives.
“The Iranian regime participated in killing the Syrian people, either
directly or through its proxies and support for militias like the terrorist
Hezbollah”, he said. Moreover, the Foreign Minister blamed Iran for disrupting
a political solution in Yemen by “threatening maritime shipping lanes and
blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid”.
Asserting that “this
rogue regime” used revenue from the nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA to
finance its aggression and terrorist activities, he advised the international
community to cut off its finance sources as “the best way to compel the regime
to renounce its militias, prevent it from developing ballistic missiles and put
an end to its destabilizing activities in the region and the world”.
Source: UN
News – 26 September 2019
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