Breitbart.com reports: “Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was welcomed in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday for a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, where they reportedly discussed the dangers of regional escalation.

Iran did a fair bit of ‘escalating’ on Tuesday by launching 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.

The meeting between Pezeshkian and Faisal seemed primarily intended to preserve the diplomatic rapprochement between the two rival powers brokered by China in March 2023, at a moment when Iran’s illegal attack on Israel threatens to touch off a major war. Tehran seems a bit nervous that the Saudis might not support them in such a conflict.

In fact, the Gulf states held an emergency meeting of foreign ministers in Doha on the same day Pezeshkian visited, and they probably were not chatting about how happy the Iranian attack on Israel made them.

The Saudis, in particular, are hoping to tamp down the Gaza and Lebanon conflicts as part of a peace deal with Israel that would include Palestinian statehood, and perhaps diplomatic recognition from Riyadh as a sweetener for the Israelis…”