A senior Saudi official has urged the Iranian regime to end what he called wrong attitudes toward Arabs and warned it against any use of force in its rivalry with the kingdom.
Mecca province governor Prince Khaled al-Faisal, in remarks likely to be seen as a reference to Iran’s regime, added that the orderly conduct of the haj pilgrimage this year “is a response to all the lies and slanders made against the kingdom,” Reuters reported.
His remarks were carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on Wednesday evening.
SPA quoted Prince Khaled as telling journalists his message to the Iranian leadership was “I pray to God Almighty to guide them and to deter them from their transgression and their wrong attitudes toward their fellow Muslim among the Arabs in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and around the world”.
“But if they are preparing an army to invade us, we are not easily taken by someone who would make war on us.”
“When we desire, and with the help of God Almighty, we will deter every aggressor and will never relent in protecting this holy land and our dear country. No one can defile any part from our country if any one of us remains on the face of the earth.”
