Iran attacks Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base that houses several US warplanes

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB) at Al-Kharj, near the capital of Riyadh, has come under repeated missile and drone attack from Iran, reported BBC.

The air base is home to a number of US warplanes, with the Saudi defence ministry saying it has intercepted at least 10 drones in the Riyadh and Eastern Province regions, said the BBC report.

Iran’s Fars news agency says it has fired a salvo missiles at the base.


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Saudi Arabia has previously said it has intercepted missiles and drones launched at the base during the ongoing Middle East war.

Riyadh is a close ally of the United States and hosts a large number of its troops. It has repeatedly been attacked by Iran, including strikes on its massive oil industry, but has so far not deployed its military against the Islamic republic.

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Recently, US President Donald Trump threatened more strikes on Iran's main oil export hub Kharg Island and said he was not ready for a deal with Tehran to end the war which has shut off the vital Strait of Hormuz and caused chaos in global energy markets.

With the US-Israeli war on Iran in its third week, Trump said U.S. strikes had "totally demolished" much of the island and warned of more, telling NBC News on Saturday, "We may hit it a few more times just for fun."

In his interview with NBC, Trump raised the possibility that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may have been killed but Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Khamenei was in full health and managing the situation.

With no clear end in sight, Iran's ability to choke off traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the conduit for a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas, has emerged with increasing urgency as a decisive threat to the global economy.

Although ⁠some Iranian ‌vessels have continued to pass, the passage has been effectively closed for most of the world's shipping since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28 at the start of an intensive bombing campaign that has hit thousands of targets across the country.

The International Energy Agency said last week the closure of the narrow passage along Iran's southern coast had triggered the largest disruption to global oil markets in history, and was expected to cut around 8% of global supplies in March.