Saudi threatens military action if Qatar deploys anti-aircraft missiles: report
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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has threatened to take military action if Qatar installs a Russian air defense system, Reuters reported citing France’s Le Monde newspaper.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates severed diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar last year, accusing Doha of supporting terrorism, which it denies.
Qatar and Russia signed an agreement on military and technical cooperation last year. Qatar’s ambassador to Russia was quoted as saying in January that it was in talks to buy the Russian S-400 missile air defense systems.
Le Monde said that Saudi King Salman had written a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, expressing his profound concern over negotiations between Doha and Moscow and the possibility that Qatar could deploy the missiles.
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