Turkiye says Iran’s indiscriminate bombings is ‘wrong strategy’

ISTANBUL:

Iran’s indiscriminate retaliatory attacks on targets across the Gulf states are the “wrong strategy,” Turkey’s top diplomat said in a televised interview on Tuesday.

“Iran’s bombing of Arab countries without making any distinction — Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan — all of them — is, in my opinion, an incredibly wrong strategy,” Hakan Fidan told state-run TRT HABER television.

“It significantly increases the risk in the region. But from Iran’s own perspective as well, it is an extremely mistaken strategy,” he added.

Iran has broadened its targets in its war with the United States and Israel to include infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, which are American allies.

Oil infrastructure came under Iranian attack in Gulf countries on Tuesday, with Qatar’s state energy firm halting some production of key materials after strikes on two facilities.