Qatar has called for an “immediate” end to the US-Israeli war on Iran, becoming the first major Gulf energy producer to explicitly call for a halt to the conflict without conditions. “This war needs to stop immediately. The aggression needs to stop immediately,” Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Thursday, alongside Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, reported Middle East Eye.
Qatar’s call for an immediate end to the war is notable because a statement issued by Arab and Muslim countries on Wednesday did not call for an unconditional halt in fighting. Instead, it called for an immediate halt in Iranian attacks and generally condemned Tehran.
“Everyone knows who the main beneficiary of this war is, and dragging the whole region into this conflict is,” Thani added. MEE speculates that his comments are likely to be interpreted as a reference to Israel, whose attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field and facilities this week prompted an Iranian reprisal against energy production sites in the Arab Gulf.
