War on Iran: Senior royal says Saudi Arabia avoided Israeli plan to ‘plunge region into ruin’

Prince Turki al-Faisal, a senior Saudi royal who led Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service for over two decades, said that the Gulf kingdom refused to get plunged into “an Israeli plan to ignite war between us and Iran”. He said that Riyadh had worked hard to diplomatically resolve a war it had “initially worked hard to prevent”.