{"id":841688,"date":"2026-08-02T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841688\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:11:08","slug":"saudi-crown-prince-concerned-about-us-strikes-on-iran-asks-donald-trump-to-reconsider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841688\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Crown Prince concerned about US strikes on Iran, asks Donald Trump to reconsider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Crown Prince <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-904048\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammed bin Salman<\/a> asked US President Donald Trump to reconsider potential large military strikes on Iran during a phone call on Saturday, Axios reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The report cited two United States officials, one of whom told Axios that &#8220;the Saudis expressed concern and asked for clarity about the plan of action.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Axios further cited sources with knowledge of the call between the two world leaders, who said that MBS asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-904211\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> to de-escalate the situation instead of launching large strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the report, the Saudis are concerned that the strikes could result in an unprecedented regional escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Axios reached out to the Saudi Embassy in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-904016\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a> and the White House, both of which declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Other countries in the region have also asked Trump to avoid escalating the situation, including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Pakistan, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>According to Axios, indirect talks on Saturday between the US and Iran have resulted in some progress, though no agreement has been reached.<\/p>\n<p>Amichai Stein contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked US President Donald Trump to reconsider potential large military strikes on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,43,5897,131835,44,13341,41,39,42,40,772,141285],"class_list":["post-841688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-mohammed-bin-salman","tag-news","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}