{"id":57117,"date":"2026-04-28T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57117"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:50:17","slug":"gulf-leaders-meet-in-saudi-arabia-to-discuss-response-to-iranian-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57117","title":{"rendered":"Gulf leaders meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss response to Iranian strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Reuters) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 28 – Saudi \u200cCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chaired a consultative meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Jeddah on Tuesday, state media said, the first in-person meeting of Gulf leaders since their states became a \u200bfront in\u00a0the Iran war<\/a>\u00a0two months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Gulf official, speaking on condition \u200bof anonymity, said the meeting aimed to craft a response to the \u2060thousands of Iranian missile and drone attacks Gulf states have faced since the U.S. \u200band Israel launched the war with strikes on Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saudi state media \u200bsaid the summit discussed “topics and issues related to regional and international developments, and the coordination of efforts regarding them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iran war has seen key energy infrastructure in all six GCC states damaged, with U.S.-linked \u200bfirms and other civilian infrastructure, as well as military installations, also targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attacks have subsided \u200bsince the U.S. and Iran entered a ceasefire on April 8, though Gulf capitals remain wary \u200cof resumed \u2060conflict, with U.S.-Iran talks for a permanent deal to end the conflict so far inconclusive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qatar’s emir, Kuwait’s crown prince, Bahrain’s king and the United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister attended the summit, Saudi state media reported. It was unclear who represented Oman, the remaining member \u200bof the GCC along \u200bwith Saudi Arabia, \u2060which hosts the council’s headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GCC has faced some criticism from the UAE over what it said has been an inadequate response \u200bto the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is true that, logistically, the GCC countries supported \u200beach other, \u2060but politically and militarily, I think their position was the weakest in history,” senior UAE official Anwar Gargash told a conference in the UAE on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I expected such a weak \u2060position \u200bfrom the Arab League, and I am not surprised \u200bby it, but I have not expected it from the GCC, and I am surprised by it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) April 28 – Saudi \u200cCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chaired a consultative meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Jeddah on Tuesday, state media said, the first in-person meeting of Gulf leaders since their states became a \u200bfront in\u00a0the Iran war\u00a0two months ago. A Gulf official, speaking on condition \u200bof anonymity, said the meeting aimed to craft a response to the \u2060thousands of Iranian missile and drone attacks Gulf states have faced since the U.S. \u200band Israel launched the war with strikes on Iran on February 28. Saudi state media \u200bsaid the summit discussed “topics and issues related to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57119,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57117\/revisions\/57119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}