Ragip Soylu – Middle East Eye March 22, 2026
Gulf countries have issued their “last warnings” to Iran and may be forced to retaliate if the attacks continue, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Saturday.
Fidan attended a regional summit in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, on Saturday, where participants agreed to issue a strong joint statement criticising Iran for its attacks on Gulf states, particularly on civilian infrastructure, since the US-Israeli assault on Tehran began last month.
The Turkish foreign minister said the summit was convened to address a single issue: Iran’s attacks.
“The Gulf countries are questioning why Iran is targeting them in this war,” Fidan said. “They say, ‘We have nothing to do with the outbreak of this war; that is a separate matter.’ They also say, ‘The attack against us is unjust, and we need to respond to it.’”
Fidan said the Gulf countries had declared from the outset that they would not allow their airspace or bases on their territory to be used against Iran, insisting that they were not party to the war.
“They also state that Iran has attacked not only military bases but also civilian infrastructure and economic targets, and that this is deliberate,” Fidan said.
“The Gulf countries say that if the current situation continues, they will be forced to take countermeasures. At this summit, they also issued their last warnings on this matter. The recent intense attacks triggered this as well. The risk has increased.”
While Fidan and the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Syria were meeting in Riyadh on Thursday, Iran fired missiles and drones at the Saudi capital, which was perceived as a threatening symbol.
Vibe shift
Iran’s attacks on Qatari gas facilities and Saudi oil infrastructure this week in particular angered Gulf allies, prompting a reassessment of how to deal with Tehran.
Middle East Eye reported this week that Saudi Arabia had agreed to open King Fahd Air Base in Taif, western Saudi Arabia, to the Americans, underscoring a shift in how the kingdom and some other Gulf states are responding to the US-Israeli war on Iran.
In a phone call earlier this month, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed told his US counterpart, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that the UAE was prepared for the war to last up to nine months, a US official told MEE.
Fidan said that while Turkey opposes both Israel’s aggression and expansionism and Iran’s actions aimed at spreading the war across the region, Ankara would continue using its diplomatic channels to try to stop the escalation.
“We do not in any way want this situation to evolve into a prolonged war that engulfs the entire region,” Fidan said, referring to the possibility of direct Gulf involvement in the conflict.
Fidan added that the war could lead to significant changes in the Gulf countries, saying that new efforts in the defence industry could come onto the agenda.
Ankara has emerged as a defence industry heavyweight in the region through major investments in fighter jets, tanks, missiles and electronic warfare systems.
Turkey has already established an ongoing defence industry cooperation with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE on drone technology and ammunition.
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These are results for where does Israel get its oil from?
Israel primarily imports its oil from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Gabon, and Brazil, with Azerbaijan via Turkey (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline) being the largest supplier, accounting for roughly 40% of its crude needs. The US is a key supplier of refined jet fuel, while Russia also supplies crude and refined products.
Key Oil Sources and Logistics:
Azerbaijan & Kazakhstan: The majority of Israel’s crude oil arrives from the Caspian region via the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Africa & South America: Significant volumes are shipped from Gabon, Nigeria, and Brazil.
Refined Products: Russia is a major supplier of refined fuels, along with the US.
Logistics: Due to regional instability, maritime imports are critical, often arriving at the Ashkelon port, while the Red Sea Eilat terminal has seen reduced activity due to security threats.
Refining: Israel operates two main refineries: BAZAN in Haifa and Paz Oil in Ashdod.
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I wonder what kind of ‘Deep State’ is operating in Turkey?
Turkey is one crazy Moslem country allied with the Zionist Kikes…
Iran should end their monarchies if they align with colonisers and Zionists to go against them.
In his eye-opening book ‘House of Bush, House of Saud’ Craig Unger explains how the Saud royal family back in the late 1700s were then a clan of cut-throats and brigands who became useful for their brutality. That’s why they were later installed by the west, while their allies the bin Ladens built docks, airports and major infrastructure. Between both families they devised a way for the bin Ladens to borrow money to build Saudi Arabia but in a way they could avoid calling it usury. So they would “rent” a volume of money for an agreed length of time and it was paid back as rent.
The Iranians will know how un-Islamic the Saud’s really are.
Gulf countries “warning” Iran??? What a joke. These “countries” are run by racist criminal gangs who do no work but import people from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India to do the hard work for them and then treat them like slaves.
Simple:
Iran has no desire to simply attack its neighbours without provocation nor due -diligence
It is all war -gamed and strategic.
The message is to de-link with ISRAEL and USA and purge their influence whether it be physical, political etc.etc.
It makes no sense that IRAN would wish to ramp up the wars”just because” in the area and be a pariah in the region with VietNam 2.0.
Perhaps the Kikes got Turkey and the other nations to send these messages out under/via threat/s.
Otherwise makes no sense.
Iran is ” IN- IT -TO – WIN -IT “on their terms which is to clear out the Kikes and their increasingly weak and desperate USA lapdogs from the Middle East.
Other possibility/inevitability is the “Epstein Files” Israel is dangling in front of DawnAWLed T-rump.
As I said earlier …”SIMPLE”
Empty threats – the Gulf States have nothing to offer. Essential American bases are already wrecked. None of the air defences are worth a damn. They have no significant ground troops. If Iran destroys their civilian and industrial infrastructure – an easy task – the countries will collapse overnight. A starving and thirsty populace – who hate the ruling elite anyway – will turn on them. They will have to flee and live off their assets abroad.
“The Gulf countries are questioning why Iran is targeting them in this war” vomited out Turkish ghoul Hakan Fidan in typically duplicitous Turkish fashion. The Gulf cuntries are more like fiefdoms, fiefdoms run by depraved schizos who love to flaunt oil wealth and hope it projects some power, while knowing inside that anyone else around can beat them silly with a big rubber dong anytime they want and there’s not much they can do about it.
The snivelingly wicked Gulf cuntries should be incinerated posthaste, if only for tolerating Mordor in their midst and for them hosting Mordor’s cuck mayhem & murder squad, i.e. the frothing psychopath retards of the Jewnited States.
Turkey, the most unreliable and opportunistic of regimes pretends to oppose Zionrael but the sordid reality is that they are a country that is NATO occupied. They promote Azeri aggression against Armenia (hoping to ‘settle’ a long term problem from their genocide against Armenians, Greeks and others 1915-22) all the while Azerbaijan provides Zionrael with its majority of the oil it needs for its war machine, in return for Israeli weaponry.
Iran needs to cut off that supply before Turkey stages some false flag attack on itself in order to draw NATO into the war, something N.Yahoo desperately seeks. Turkey under Er Dog An is nothing more than a narcotics trading and people smuggling hub dreaming of becoming the Ottoman Empire once again and ruling mercilessly over Arabs and others. Despite all the cunning and blackmail the regime specialises in in, current Turkey is myopic and trusted by nobody – do they really think Izrahell will allow them to rule over the Arab world once again ? Imbeciles, they are next on Z’s hit list.
“‘The Gulf countries are questioning why Iran is targeting them in this war,’ Fidan said.”
Because they have USRAEL bases on their land that launches missiles against Iran.
“‘They also state that Iran has attacked not only military bases but also civilian infrastructure and economic targets, and that this is deliberate,’ Fidan said.”
If the missiles from USRAEL bases hit civilian targets in Iran then it is perfectly valid.
“Fidan said that while Turkey opposes both Israel’s aggression and expansionism and Iran’s actions aimed at spreading the war across the region, Ankara would continue using its diplomatic channels to try to stop the escalation.”
No it is perfectly justified self-defense from Iran. It is USRAEL who is the aggressor and spreads wars across the region.