Asseri added, the group has used civilian facilities including abandoned embassies in the past.
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Iran also said on Thursday that Saudi warplanes had attacked its embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, an accusation that Riyadh said it would investigate.
Ozcan noted that there would be attempts to overcome the division, “because it is also becoming very unsafe for both countries and at the same time for the region”. Hours later on Sunday, Saudi Arabia cut off diplomatic relations with Iran.
Diplomatic tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which began with the kingdom’s execution of Shiite Sheik Nimr al-Nimr and later saw attacks on Saudi diplomatic posts in the Islamic Republic, have seen countries around the world respond.
“Djibouti cut its diplomatic ties with Iran out of solidarity with Saudi Arabia”, Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf told Reuters in a text message.
Although an Associated Press reporter in Sanaa said he saw no damage to the Iranian embassy there on Thursday, the provocation of a nearby strike was enough to prompt further retaliation from the Iranian government.
Last weekend, protesters stormed the Saudi Arabian embassy in Iran after Riyadh executed top Iranian Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr on January 2, along with dozens of other people convicted of “terrorism”.
While embassies are often a focus of protests worldwide, Iran still celebrates the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the USA embassy in Tehran every year and refers to it as the Second Revolution.
Several Saudi allies have rallied the kingdom’s side, with a number of nations following its lead in either cutting or reducing diplomatic ties with Iran. Riyadh, Bahrain and Sudan severed relations with Tehran while Kuwait recalled its ambassador.
Salami compared Saudi policies with those of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president overthrown by US forces in 2003.
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On Wednesday, Jordan summoned the Iranian ambassador in Amman and condemned the attack on Saudi embassy in Tehran, as well as its rejection of Iran’s interference in Arab affairs.
