12 Arab and Islamic countries unite to condemn 'heinous' Iranian attacks

A radical of 12 Arab and Islamic countries connected Thursday condemned Iran’s "heinous" attacks, denouncing rocket and drone strikes connected civilian infrastructure and informing Tehran against further escalation.

The overseas ministers of Qatar, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates issued the associated connection aft a consultative gathering successful Riyadh.

The countries accused Iran of deliberately targeting residential areas, lipid facilities, airports and diplomatic premises crossed the region.

The ministers reaffirmed what they called the close of affected countries to support themselves nether Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and urged Iran to instantly halt its attacks and abide by planetary law.

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Foreign ministers from crossed the Arab and Islamic satellite convene successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, connected March 18, 2026, for a consultative gathering aimed astatine de-escalating subject tensions successful the Middle East. (Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images)

They besides called connected Tehran to respect their territorial sovereignty, cease enactment for affiliated militias successful Arab countries, and debar actions that could endanger maritime security, including successful the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, a cardinal planetary shipping way linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The connection further expressed enactment for Lebanon’s stableness and sovereignty, portion besides condemning Israel’s actions successful the state and its "expansionist argumentation successful the region."

"The Ministers reaffirm their committedness to continuing intensive consultation and coordination successful this regard, to show developments and measure emerging issues successful a mode that guarantee the formulation of communal positions and the adoption of indispensable morganatic measures and procedures to support their security, stability, and sovereignty, and to halt the Iranian heinous attacks connected their territories," the associated connection reads.

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Qatar Energy facilities successful Ras Laffan Industrial City connected Mar. 3, 2026, aft the institution halted LNG accumulation astatine Ras Laffan and Mesaieed sites pursuing reported Iranian attacks. (Stringer/Getty)

It comes a time aft Israel struck Iran’s South Pars state field, prompting Iranian retaliatory attacks connected vigor infrastructure successful Qatar and Saudi Arabia, including Doha’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world’s largest LNG accumulation facility.

Oil prices surged Thursday greeting pursuing the strikes, with Brent crude rising to $114.08 a tube and U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude climbing to $97.41.

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Gas prices are displayed astatine a presumption successful Brooklyn, New York City, connected Mar. 18, 2026, arsenic planetary substance costs emergence amid disruptions linked to the Iran struggle and shipping constraints successful the Strait of Hormuz. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump said connected his Truth Social level that Israel would halt further strikes connected Iran’s South Pars state tract unless Tehran escalates, informing that the United States could respond with overwhelming unit if Qatar’s LNG facilities are targeted again.

"The United States of America, with oregon without the assistance oregon consent of Israel, volition massively stroke up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field astatine an magnitude of spot and powerfulness that Iran has ne'er seen oregon witnessed before," Trump wrote. "I bash not privation to authorize this level of unit and demolition due to the fact that of the agelong word implications that it volition person connected the aboriginal of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I volition not hesitate to bash so."