Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said on Thursday his country was determined to confront Iran’s meddling in the internal affairs of Arab states.
“Saudi Arabia is working to confront Iran’s trouble-making activities in the region,” Jubeir told a news conference in Amman where he was meeting senior Jordanian officials.
Al-Jubeir said :”We are determined that Iran should not have a negative intervention in the region or in Arab countries.”
He said that Riyadh had already curbed Tehran’s efforts to expand its influence.
“The work we are doing to confront Iran’s influence has achieved successes in several countries and we see the presence of Iran has shrunk in some areas in Africa and Yemen,” Jubeir said.
He said Saudi Arabia sought good relations with Iran but most of the recent “aggressive actions” seen in the region had emanated from Tehran, urging the Iranians to respect “the principle of non-intervention” in others’ affairs.
Jubeir also called for Iraq’s Shiite-led government to accelerate political reforms in order to give Sunni Muslims more say in running the country and end the “hegemony” of Iran there.
