Iran war updates: Iran says Israel to pay for killing of security officials

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud says that Iran’s attack aimed at Saudi energy facilities was “a blatant attempt at blackmail”.

The country said earlier that it intercepted and destroyed four ballistic missiles that were launched towards Riyadh just ahead of ‌a meeting of regional and Islamic foreign ministers in the Saudi capital.

“For me, it was clear that the attack today was timed with this meeting, in order to attempt to intimidate those present, to send out the message that Iran will not stop,” he said.

“All I can say is we were not intimidated. We were not in any way convinced that Iran can be a legitimate partner when it behaves this way,” he continued.

“What little trust there was has been completely shattered.”

Prince Faisal, still speaking to reporters, reiterated his earlier point that his country reserves the right to respond to Iranian attacks.

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, speaking to reporters in Riyadh, has said the little trust that remained in Iran has been completely shattered.

“Iran’s attacks on neighbouring countries were premeditated, and what we are witnessing now confirms this,” Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat added.

“I would hope that they understand the message of the meeting today, recalculate quickly and stop attacking their neighbours.”

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud says Iran is continuing to attack civilian sites and its justification that targets are linked to the presence of US military bases is “unconvincing”.

Iran’s strikes on its neighbours will have consequences, Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat added, and are only serving to increase Tehran’s isolation.

Iran does not believe in dialogue with neighbouring countries, and any threat to freedom of navigation requires collective action, he added.

In addition, Prince Faisal said foreign ministers at the meeting that has just concluded in Riyadh agreed Iran must immediately stop supporting regional proxies.

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, in response to a question on whether his country would prefer that the war end now or that the US and Israel further degrade Iran’s missile capabilities, told reporters that his only concern is that the attacks on the Gulf end now.

“What I care about now is that the attacks on my country and on my neighbouring countries, that are not involved in this conflict, end. That’s all I’m interested in,” he said.

“We are going to use every lever we have, political, economic, diplomatic … to get these attacks to stop.”

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud tells reporters that Iran “doesn’t believe in talking to its neighbours”, and rather that “it tries to pressure its neighbours”.

He said that this pressure is not going to work.

“The kingdom is not going to succumb to pressure, and, on the contrary, this pressure will backfire … politically, will backfire, I believe, morally, and certainly, as we have stated clearly, we reserve the right to take military actions if necessary”, he continued.

Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud has been speaking to reporters following a meeting of foreign ministers in Riyadh.

He has said that two refineries have been attacked in Saudi Arabia and that Iran must review its “misjudgements” since these attacks will not bring any gains.

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A three-month old baby has been killed in a US-Israeli attack on a two-storey residential building in the Majidieh area of Iran’s capital, the IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency is reporting.

An unspecified number of the baby’s family were also killed in the attack on the building, which Fars reported was home to civilians.

The French president says on X that he has spoken with the US president and Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani after Iranian missiles hit Ras Laffan Industrial City, home to a large natural gas facility.

“It is in our common interest to implement, without delay, a moratorium on strikes targeting civilian infrastructure, particularly energy and water supply facilities”, he wrote.

“Civilian populations and their essential needs, as well as the security of energy supplies, must be protected from military escalation.”

Patrick Galey, the head of investigations at Global Witness, has told Al Jazeera that attacks on oil and gasfields in Iran, Qatar and other countries in the region are causing both local and global environmental harms “in real time”.

These include “huge amounts of incredibly damaging pollutants spewing into the atmosphere”, including methane, which is “80 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide”, said Galey.

The harms also include a “catastrophic effect on local air quality” from “methane and other pollutants from unprocessed gas … in a part of the world where [methane] and [nitrogen dioxide] levels are already higher than is healthy,” Galey said.

“These effects will persist well beyond any ceasefire or lasting peace,” he added.

Galey also noted that rebuilding after the war will also “incur an additional climate debt that all of us will pay once this war of bombs and bullets ends.”

“Anything that gets destroyed in this war will require rebuilding. And we will use fossil fuels – oil and gas – to power reconstruction.”

Israel’s actions in recent days appear to be part of a “political agenda” aimed at precluding “any kind of diplomatic track” to end the war soon, Ross Harrison, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, has told Al Jazeera.

These actions include attacks on Iran’s oil and gasfields and targeted assassinations of “possible interlocutors”, such as Ali Larijani, Harrison said.

“The attack on the oil installations and now the gasfields raises the escalation ladder, and in many ways, I think, traps the United States,” Harrison added.

“It’s very, very difficult now for the United States to deal with all of these contingencies, and we don’t really know how the war is going to expand from here,” he said.

A man has died in Moshav Adanim, in central Israel, following missile fire.

A spokesperson for the Magen David Adom emergency services said the man, a “foreign worker” who was about 30 years old, was found with shrapnel injuries.

As we previously reported, three Palestinian women were killed after ‌missile fragments fell in Beit Awwa near Hebron, ⁠in the occupied West ⁠Bank.