• Statement also restated that the “international community and the Security Council bears a “great responsibility to halt this immediate aggression”

Arab News

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel’s strikes on Iran early on Friday, targeting multiple sites related to the country’s nuclear program and killing Hossein Salami, the chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), along with another top Guard official and two nuclear scientists.

The Kingdom “expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the blatant Israeli aggressions against the brotherly Islamic Republic of Iran, which undermine its sovereignty and security and constitute a clear violation of international laws and norms,” a statement from Saudi foreign ministry said.

The statement also restated that the “international community and the Security Council bears a “great responsibility to halt this immediate aggression.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military operation on Iran would “continue for as many days as it takes” to “roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival.’

Israel declared a state of emergency in anticipation of retaliatory missile and drone strikes.

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meanwhile warned that Israel would suffer severe consequences after the deadly attacks.

“With this crime, the Zionist regime has set itself for a bitter and painful fate and it will definitely receive it,” Khamenei said in a statement.