RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held a phone call with his Kuwaiti counterpart during which the two sides condemned Iranian Attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait.
During the call with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Prince Faisal discussed the latest developments in the region and their security implication, a Foreign Ministry statement said on Thursday.
The Saudi Foreign Minister expressed the Kingdom’s condemnation and denunciation of the heinous Iranian attacks targeting Kuwait and Bahrain.
🇸🇦 📞 🇰🇼 | Foreign Minister HH Prince @FaisalbinFarhan held a phone call with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister H.E. Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah. pic.twitter.com/xB6c9HAl0L
— Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 (@KSAmofaEN) July 9, 2026
The two ministers also underscored the importance of de-escalation, containing tensions, and exerting all efforts to preserve the security and stability of the region.
Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a separate statement, expressed the Kingdom’s strongest condemnation and denunciation of the repeated Iranian aggressions against Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan, renewing its complete rejection of Iran’s violation of the sovereignty of the sisterly states, and its continued threat to the security and stability of the region.
#بيان | تعرب وزارة الخارجية عن إدانة واستنكار المملكة العربية السعودية بأشدّ العبارات تكرار الاعتداءات الإيرانية الآثمة على دولة الكويت، ومملكة البحرين، والمملكة الأردنية الهاشمية، مجددةً رفضها التام لانتهاك إيران سيادة الدول الشقيقة، واستمرارها في تهديد أمن واستقرار المنطقة. pic.twitter.com/IbJYCenlxq
— وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 (@KSAMOFA) July 9, 2026
US, Iran trade fresh strikes in battle over Strait of Hormuz
Earlier, Iran and the United States traded fresh military strikes, with Tehran launching missile and drone attacks on US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait after Washington carried out another wave of strikes on Iranian military targets, deepening the biggest confrontation between the two countries since the war began in February.
The latest exchange comes less than 48 hours after the United States launched major strikes on Iranian military infrastructure in response to attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering the first direct Iranian attacks on American military installations in the Gulf since the ceasefire collapsed.
The US Central Command said they had struck approximately 90 military targets, including missile and drone storage as well as military logistics sites along Iran’s coastline.
Oil tanker traffic through Hormuz at near standstill
Meanwhile oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to a near halt as shipping risks rise following renewed US airstrikes on Iran and subsequent retaliatory actions by Tehran in the Gulf.
According to analysis by Kpler, only two tankers have so far passed through the strategic waterway in the early hours. One of them was the crude supertanker Berg 1, which loaded oil from Iran’s Kharg Island and is reportedly under US sanctions.
The other vessel, the Marshall Islands-flagged chemical tanker Well Sail, also transited the strait. LSEG ship tracking data indicates that its previous loading location was near Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, according to Kpler’s analysis.
Shipping industry sources say more vessels are now disabling their public automatic identification system (AIS) tracking signals, making it increasingly difficult to monitor the full scale of tanker movements through the Strait of Hormuz.
“Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has essentially stopped, which tells you more about risk perception right now than any statement from Washington or Tehran,” Jorge Leon, head of geopolitical analysis at Rystad Energy, writes in a report.
