Saad Hariri condemned the Iranian bombardment of Gulf states and the war unfolding in the region, saying in a statement:“After exhausting all attempts to understand the reasons behind the Iranian regime’s slaughter of Lebanon and its targeting of the Gulf, and after considering it either a military mistake that would be avoided or a reckless message that would stop at certain limits, it is no longer possible to escape the truth.”

He asked: “What has Lebanon done to the Islamic Republic for it to drag the country into a destructive war that takes the lives of its people and demolishes what remains of its infrastructure, which has already been exhausted by the ‘proxy wars’ that Iran fought on its soil, expanding the scope of the aggression to include the capital Beirut, terrorizing its residents and those who sought refuge there?”

Hariri added: “The enemy that Tehran declares is Israel, yet the party that has actually received the largest share of its treacherous strikes is the Gulf. This confirms that the military arsenal accumulated under the pretext of liberating Jerusalem was prepared solely to destroy the capitals of the Arab Gulf.

How can it be that the United Arab Emirates receives the largest share of missiles and drones in a war that Iran says it is fighting with Israel and the United States, despite Abu Dhabi’s clear and repeated declaration that it will not allow its land or airspace to be used as a platform for any military action against Iran? What mind could believe that the area surrounding the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi and its airport is a regional branch of the Pentagon? And who would be convinced that the Burj Al Arab, the Burj Khalifa, the hotels of Dana Al Dunya, and its airport are military bases from which wars are run?”

He continued: “As for Saudi Arabia, which made exceptional efforts to spare Iran from a strike and spent its political, diplomatic, and moral capital to reduce tensions, its oil facilities and civilian infrastructure are still targets of Tehran’s missiles and drones, which repaid Riyadh’s goodwill with betrayal and ingratitude.”

He also asked: “How did the social security building in Kuwait become an aircraft carrier for Washington? And since when did the hotels of the Kingdom of Bahrain become military platforms? And when did Qatar, which has defended Iran on many occasions, and Oman, which served as a diplomatic bridge between Tehran and the world, become American bases used to stab the Islamic Republic?”

translate into english without dashes (-), and should be understandable for english readers: الحريري: حكّام طهران يملكون عداءً مرضيّاً عميقاً لجوارهم العربي ولدول الخليج الحريري: ما الذي فعله لبنان للجمهورية الإسلامية، لتزجّ به في حرب مدمرة، تزهق أرواح بنيه، وتدك ما تبقى من بنيته؟ Hariri: The rulers of Tehran harbor a deep and pathological hostility toward their Arab neighbors and the Gulf states. Hariri: What has Lebanon done to the Islamic Republic for it to drag the country into a destructive war that takes the lives of its people and destroys what remains of its infrastructure? استنكر الرئيس سعد الحريري القصف الإيراني لدول الخليج والحرب الدائرة في المنطقة، وقال في بيان:

He continued: “Far from any bias, something difficult to ignore is becoming clear, and we must say it out loud: the rulers of Tehran possess a deep and pathological hostility toward their Arab neighbors in general, and toward the Gulf states in particular.”

He considered that “Iran’s aggression against all its neighbors, and the launching of sinful missiles and drones toward Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Cyprus, is not merely a miscalculation but an extremely dangerous hostile behavior. Even more dangerous is that it has provided the world with proof that Iran’s regime is inherently aggressive, responding with fire and destruction toward neighbors who have shown it nothing but goodwill.”

Hariri affirmed that “the evident truth today is that while Israel has, for decades, undermined every meaning of neighborliness and peace in the region, the missiles of the Iranian regime did not fall alone; along with them fell the meaning of good neighborliness and whatever trust some still imagined existed in a regime that betrayed its own people when it decided to betray its neighbors and friends.”