Arab League chief slams Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia

Smoke billows from a Saudi Aramco's petroleum storage facility after an attack in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia March 26, 2022. (Reuters)
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Updated 26 March 2022
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Arab League chief slams Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia

  • Ahmed Aboul Gheit has condemned “in the strongest terms” the recent Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

CAIRO: Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has condemned “in the strongest terms the recent Houthi attacks on Saudi oil facilities and infrastructure.”

These attacks by the Iran-backed Yemeni militia pose “a grave threat to security in the region and to energy supplies at a time when the international economy is going through a delicate circumstance,” he said.

“The targeting of civilians and civilian facilities, including those of (Saudi) Aramco in Jeddah, represents a dangerous development that the international community must pay attention to.”

The international community “must deal more firmly with these terrorist operations, and the ongoing violations of international law by the Houthi militia,” Aboul Gheit said. “Saudi forces dealt efficiently and vigilantly with the attacks.”

He added: “International solidarity with the Kingdom must be reflected in a clear position … regarding these attacks, and those behind them or supporting them.”


Israeli military says it will pursue every successor of Iran’s Khamenei

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Israeli military says it will pursue every successor of Iran’s Khamenei

  • The clerical body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader has more or less reached a majority consensus
  • Minor disagreement over whether their final ⁠decision must follow an ‌in-person meeting or instead ‌be issued
The Israeli military warned it would continue pursuing every successor of Iran’s next ‌supreme ‌leader.
In a ‌post ⁠on X in ⁠Farsi, the Israeli military also warned it would ⁠pursue every ‌person ‌who seeks ‌to ‌appoint a successor for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ‌referring to the clerical body ⁠charged with ⁠choosing the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.
The clerical body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday.
The Mehr news agency quoted him as saying “some obstacles” still ‌needed to ‌be resolved regarding the ‌process.
On ⁠Saturday, a senior ⁠cleric in the Assembly of Experts said its members would meet “within one day” to choose the leader.
Iranian media said the group had a minor disagreement over whether their final ⁠decision must follow an ‌in-person meeting or instead ‌be issued without adhering to this ‌formality.
Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, another member ‌of the Assembly of Experts, said in a video released by Nournews on Sunday that an in-person meeting by the ‌assembly for a final vote was not possible under current conditions.
He ⁠said ⁠a candidate had been picked, based on the late supreme leader’s advice that Iran’s top leader should “be hated by the enemy” instead of praised by it.
“Even the Great Satan (US) has mentioned his name,” Heidari Alekasir said of the chosen successor, days after US President Donald Trump said that Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, was an “unacceptable” choice for him.