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Saudi Arabia reserves the right to act militarily against Iran and any trust with Tehran has been shattered, its foreign minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud said on March 19 after Riyadh was targeted by Iranian ballistic missiles.

Iran accused Israel of striking its facilities in the huge South Pars gas field on March 18 in a major escalation in the US-Israeli war against Iran and retaliated by vowing attacks on oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf.

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00:35And I think that's the clearest signal of how Iran feels about diplomacy.
00:39It doesn't believe in talking to its neighbors.
00:43It tries to pressure its neighbors.
00:46And what I can say categorically, that's not going to work.
00:50The kingdom is not going to succumb to pressure.
00:52On the contrary, this pressure will backfire.
00:56It will backfire politically, will backfire, I believe, morally, and certainly, as we have
01:05stated quite clearly, we have reserved the right to take military actions if deemed necessary.
01:13And if the time comes, the leadership of the kingdom will take the necessary decision.
01:20I've not had a long enough diplomatic career to have experienced such a blatant attempt
01:29at blackmail as firing missiles while a diplomatic gathering is taking place.
01:37If Iran doesn't stop, that is the mood also I heard in this room earlier, immediately, I
01:46I think there will be almost nothing that can re-establish that trust.
01:51This is a concern for the violence that has been a part of the movement of Iran's forces and energy
01:59in the region.
02:01In the end of this process, the energy, energy, and the gas of the system
02:06in the first time of the war,
02:09and it will be the first time of the war.

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