Gulf leaders ‘furious, outraged’ over Iranian attacks, US Ambassador to UN says
U.S. Ambassador to U.N. Michael Waltz told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” on Thursday that leaders of Gulf states are “furious” and “outraged’ over Iran’s repeated attacks against them in recent days.
“The Iranian strategy of sowing chaos, shooting in all directions, hitting its Gulf neighbors, even hitting countries as far away as Turkey and Azerbaijan, is absolutely backfiring,” Waltz said.
“Here’s why it’s so significant. Number one, many of these countries have taken kind of a neutral position over the years when it comes to Iran,” Waltz explained.
“Qatar, for example, shares a massive gas field, the Pars gas field, with Iran, that stretches across the straits there. UAE has a massive free trade zone of Iranian goods. Oman was just mediating and providing the kind of neutral actor for us during the negotiations that Iran never approached in good faith,” Waltz said.
“They are all now standing strong. They are all uniformly, I got to tell you, and talking to them on a personal level, furious, outraged. And the fact that Iran is hitting hotels, resorts, ports, their shipping, you know, all of those, their airports, all of those civilian infrastructure has them squarely aligned with the United States,” he said.
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