Arab League Chief Calls Iran's Attacks 'Reckless' at Cairo Emergency Meeting

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit publicly condemned Iran's attacks on member states as 'reckless' during the emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo. The statement from the bloc's chief diplomat represents the strongest official Arab institutional condemnation of Iran since the war began. The Arab League's 22 member states include Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq — all of which have been affected directly or indirectly by Iranian strikes or the economic disruption of Hormuz closures. Aboul Gheit's use of the word 'reckless' is diplomatically significant: it is a public rebuke from the head of the pan-Arab body that Iran has historically sought to cultivate as a counterweight to US-Israeli pressure. The condemnation comes on the same day that Iran fired cluster bomb warheads at Israel and UAE continued to take mass Iranian missile and drone strikes despite Pezeshkian's ceasefire announcement. The Arab League meeting — still in session — is expected to produce a formal communiqué condemning Iranian attacks and calling for de-escalation.