{"id":304357,"date":"2026-10-12T10:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=304357"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:48:17","slug":"foreign-ministers-of-saudi-arabia-and-iran-discuss-regional-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/304357\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran discuss regional escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and Abbas Araghchi, held a phone call to discuss the latest developments in the region, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama\/28203951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During the conversation, the recent escalation in the region was discussed, as well as the measures being taken in response,&rdquo; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Araghchi posted on his Telegram channel that during the conversation, he expressed concern over the escalation, emphasizing that relying on military methods and ignoring political solutions &ldquo;will exacerbate the current situation.&rdquo; He added that Iran is ready to help establish a dialogue between Saudi Arabia and Yemen to achieve a political resolution to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>On October 10, the Kingdom&rsquo;s General Authority of Civil Aviation reported that an attack on the Riyadh airport left at least 12 people dead and another 309 injured. On October 11, it reported a new attack that resulted in additional casualties. On the same day, the Ansar Allah movement admitted to carrying out &ldquo;four large-scale operations using ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones&rdquo; within a 24-hour period.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and Abbas Araghchi, held a phone call to discuss the latest developments in the region, TASS reports. &ldquo;During the conversation, the recent escalation in the region was discussed, as well as the measures being taken in response,&rdquo; the statement said. Araghchi posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":304347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304359,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304357\/revisions\/304359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}