The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is believed to be fearful concerning the escalating tensions with Iran-backed proxies comparable to Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthi assaults on Saudi Arabia, which may de-stabilise Iraq the place Saudis, Emiratis, and others lately invested billions of {dollars}.

The GCC, comprising Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, is worried that Iran may very well be the brand new chief and decision-maker within the area with the latest flip of occasions vis-à-vis Gaza-Israel battle.

Although Saudi Arabia has normalised ties with Iran to an extent, however there are tensions inherent because it stays a goal of Iran’s theocratic dogma and single-minded dedication to turn out to be the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, thus, asserting non secular, not simply geopolitical, primacy over the area and the entire Muslim world.

According to prime intelligence sources, Iran has been calling the pictures behind the scenes on the theatre of struggle in Gaza and regionally the complete time. Lebanese army group Hezbollah, which is engaged in change of fireplace with Israel at their border, is making its choices on Iran’s steerage.

The GCC summit represented a “weak” Saudi Arabia, and the attempt by the Arab world to appease Iran and follow its lead on information warfare.

Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries called on Saturday for immediate action to end military operations in Gaza. The extraordinary joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh urged the International Criminal Court to investigate “war crimes and crimes against humanity that Israel is committing” within the Palestinian territories, in accordance with a last communique, in accordance with information company Reuters.

Dozens of leaders together with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was welcomed again into the Arab League this yr, attended the joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh.

Finally, the collective gathering to problem the assertion calling for a right away ceasefire and rejecting Israel’s declare of self-defence, reveals they’re, nonetheless reluctantly, agreeing to just accept Iran because the chief on the Palestinian trigger.

They additionally accepted Iran’s place that Hamas, moderately than anybody else, represents Palestinians. This implies that Hamas’ legitimacy in public and its rule over Gaza might finally take form sooner or later, sources stated.

They might sooner or later additionally impose oil embargo to drive the US and its allies to strain Israel into placing a cease on fight and save Hamas from extreme army losses.