DUBAI: Iran’s intelligence minister told its indigenous rival Saudi Arabia on Wednesday that there’s no guarantee of Tehran continuing its “strategic tolerance,” according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
“Until now, Iran has espoused strategic tolerance with firm rationality, but it can not guarantee that it’ll not run out if the conflict continues,” Fars quoted Esmail Khatib as saying.
Still, glass palaces will deteriorate and these countries won’t witness stability presently, “If Iran decides to avenge and discipline.” Iran has indicted foreign adversaries of picking uneasiness raging since the death in police guardianship of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in September after her arrest for allegedly despising the Islamic Republic’s strict dress law assessed on women.
The demurrers by Iranians from all walks of life have proliferated into one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s pastoral leaders since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Last month, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards principal Hossein Salami advised Saudi Arabia Riyadh to control its media outlets.
“I’m advising the Saudi ruling family. Watch your guests and control these media. Else you’ll pay the price. This is our last warning because you’re snooping on our state matters through these media. We told you, be careful,” Salami said, according to Iranian state media.
Last week Iran denied that it posed trouble to Saudi Arabia after the Wall Street Journal reported that Riyadh had participated in intelligence with the United States warning of an imminent attack from Iran on targets in the area.
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Deadly strike hits pro-Iran host
A strike on a pro-Iran host convoy in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border killed at least 14 people overnight, a war examiner said Wednesday, without specifying who carried it out.
The attack hit a convoy of “energy tankers and exchanges loaded with munitions”, in the Albu Kamal area, Britain- grounded Syrian overlook for Human Rights said.
The US-led coalition fighting the remnants of the militant Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria said neither it nor any coalition countries carried out the raid.
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A spokesperson for the Israeli service said “We don’t note on foreign press reports.” The Iraqi border functionary said the exchanges were transporting Lebanon- bound energy from Iran via Iraq and Syria.
He said the convoy comported of 22 tanker exchanges, 10 of which were hit after entering Syrian home through the Al Qaim- Albu Kamal border crossing.
Four exchanges were “fully burnt”, he added, but said there were “no victims”.
