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Saudi Arabia reserves the right to act militarily against Iran and any trust with Tehran has been shattered, the Saudi foreign minister said early on Thursday, after Riyadh was targeted by Iranian ballistic missiles.

Iran accused Israel of striking its ‌facilities in the huge South Pars gas field on Wednesday in a major escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war that sent oil prices shooting higher, and retaliated by vowing attacks on oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf, firing missiles at Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

In the harshest comments to come out of the Gulf kingdom in nearly three weeks of war, Farhan accused Iran of premeditated hostile actions against its neighbours, ⁠both directly and via an array of regional proxies which he urged Tehran to reign in.

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[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That stance makes absolutely no sense. If a nation is invading you the military bases belonging to that nation are valid legal targets.

Well yes and not - but that is how international law works. As an analogy, Russia is not attacking tanks heading through the EU to Ukraine, before they pass the border into Ukraine.

There has to be a consensus of what constitutes a legal target. Or the whole world would be anarchy.