GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashed Al-Zayani has condemned the barbaric aggression on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and the Consulate in Mashhad, holding the Iranian authorities fully responsible for these acts of terrorism. Failure on the side of the Iranian authorities to forestall such aggression constitutes a breach of Iran's commitments to the protection of diplomatic missions according to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, and the International Law, Dr. Al-Zayani said in a statement. Dr. Al-Zayani also denounced Iran's hostile and fomenting statements against Saudi Arabia after the Kingdom carried out legitimate rulings against terrorists. He considered the statements blatant interference in the Kingdom's internal affairs. He stressed that the statements prompted the aggression on the Saudi diplomatic missions. The GCC member states stand side by side with Kingdom in the condemnation of these acts of terrorism that targeted the Saudi diplomatic mission in Iran, and hold the Iranian authorities fully responsible for the attacks, Dr. Al-Zayani said. He also reiterated the GCC support to the resolutions the Kingdom had made to fight all forms of terrorism and track perpetrators of acts of terrorism, and agitators and bring them to justice.
