Saudi Arabia will strike those who threaten the kingdom's security and stability with an "iron fist," the kingdom's crown prince said on Thursday, one day after an attack on a Remembrance Day ceremony injured two in the kingdom.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack on a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah during a World War I remembrance ceremony involving French and other embassies. The group provided no evidence for the claim.
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"We will continue to hit with an iron fist against anyone who thinks of threatening our security and stability," Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto ruler, said in a speech carried by Saudi state news agency SPA.
Wednesday's attack occurred two weeks after a Saudi man wounded a security guard at the French consulate in Jeddah with what has been described as a "sharp tool" and after recent Islamist terrorist attacks in France and Austria.
Prince Mohammed said Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, is committed to confronting extremism, and rejects and condemns all terrorist acts.
He said actual terror attacks in the kingdom, the world's top oil exporter and a key US ally, had "fallen to near zero" following a restructuring of the interior ministry and reforming of the security sector that began in mid-2017.
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