GCC condemns "barbaric" attacks on Saudi embassy, consulate in Iran

RIYADH, Jan 3 (KUNA) -- The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) 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, GCC Secretary-General Dr. Abdullatif Al-Zayani said in a statement on Sunday.
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 mission in Iraq.
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, 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." Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in the Iranian capital in the early hours of Sunday starting fires before being removed by the police, and also attacked the consulate in Mashhad. (end) yms.msa