This announcement comes despite discussions held this week in Tehran between Iran and the countries of the Mecca pact.
Published on October 30, 2026
Iran-backed Houthi forces have claimed responsibility for a total of six attacks on airports and oil installations across Saudi Arabia, despite a rare meeting of senior Saudi and Iranian officials in Tehran earlier this week, after which both sides agreed to resolve disputes in the region through dialogue.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan all sent high-level representatives to the meeting, but despite the positive statements, Houthi forces continue to launch missiles and drones at the kingdom and at Saudi-backed forces in Yemen.
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Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a statement published on
According to Saree’s statement, the Houthis targeted the Ras Tanura oil refinery with a ballistic missile, an Aramco facility in Abqaiq with a missile, Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport with several missiles, Dammam’s King Fahd International Airport with a drone, the Rabigh oil refinery with a ballistic missile, and a Saudi military headquarters in the Najran region.
There has been no independent corroboration of the group’s claims.
Tehran talks
The intensification of fighting comes despite high-level diplomacy this week aimed at easing heightened regional tensions that have particularly inflamed cross-border fighting between Houthi forces and Saudi Arabia.
After Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, members of the Iran-Mecca defense alliance, concluded their meeting in Tehran on Monday, “the participants agreed to continue discussions to strengthen cooperation between the four countries in the region,” according to an official Iranian press release published by the Fars News Agency.
The meeting, hosted by Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei and attended by Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistani army chief Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, focused on “peace and security in the region”, the statement added.
For its part, the Saudi Foreign Ministry stressed “the importance of opening negotiation channels to avoid a return to military escalation” at the end of the meeting.
The announcement by the Houthi spokesperson Thursday comes after the Saudi-led coalition said its air defenses had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis toward the capital, according to coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki.
Saudi Civil Defense said shrapnel from the interception injured a Saudi citizen in Riyadh. Shrapnel also damaged a house and a vehicle, the agency’s spokesperson told the state news agency.
Alerts about the arrival of potential threats had been issued in the governorates of Riyadh and al-Kharj as well as in the city of Najran before the announcement of these interceptions.
Earlier Thursday, Yemen’s internationally recognized government issued a statement calling on the UN Security Council to take “dissuasive and punitive measures” to stop Houthi attacks on Aden’s international airport.
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