Alert has been sounded across Saudi Arabia as the US have shared information indicating Iran may attack the kingdom or other nations in the region sometime soon, Bloomberg reported.
The two countries as well as regional allies have raised their military alert level.
Tensions remain high, with Iran arrayed against Saudi Arabia and other nations in the region after a series of attacks in recent years that included Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps firing more than 70 missiles in September into Iraq’s Kurdish region, where the US still has troops stationed. In addition, a United Nations-brokered truce between Yemen’s government backed by the Saudis and the Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebel militia has expired.
The intelligence-sharing over a potential Iranian attack was reported earlier by the Wall Street Journal.
US-Saudi relations are also strained. President Joe Biden has said he plans to “recalibrate” the two countries’ relationship after OPEC+, with Saudi Arabia in the lead, disregarded US entreaties and ordered a cut in production last month.
Iran has said the US and its partners fomented its domestic unrest, which broke out in early September over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody after she was arrested for allegedly flouting strict Islamic dress codes.