{"id":3456,"date":"2026-02-01T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:12:45","slug":"saudi-arabia-denies-axios-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/saudi-arabia-denies-axios-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia denies Axios report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Saudi official told Asharq al-Awsat that a report published by the U.S. outlet Axios claiming a shift in Riyadh\u2019s position on escalating regional tensions is false.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tehran &#8211; IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the official, Saudi Arabia continues to support diplomatic solutions, and calls for resolving disputes between the United States and Iran through dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that Saudi Arabia will not allow its territory or airspace to be used for any attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Axios had claimed that the Saudi defense minister said during a private meeting in Washington that failing to carry out Trump\u2019s threat would embolden Iran.<\/p>\n<p>While it is predictable that the declared and actual positions of actors such as Saudi Arabia regarding a U.S. war against Iran may be contradictory, public declarations of neutrality and the refusal of countries to participate in any aggression against Iran are notable for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They implicitly acknowledge the illegitimacy of such a war.<\/li>\n<li>Iran\u2019s deterrence is strong enough that countries fear retaliation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Saudi official told Asharq al-Awsat that a report published by the U.S. outlet Axios claiming a shift in Riyadh\u2019s position on escalating regional tensions is false. Tehran &#8211; IranView24 According to the official, Saudi Arabia continues to support diplomatic solutions, and calls for resolving disputes between the United States and Iran through dialogue. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,47,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-west-asia","category-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}