Militants attack Saudi airline office in Iran

A militant group has attacked the office of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned airline in Tehran over a Saudi-backed peace initiative with Israel, according to a report in Iran’s state-run newspaper.

Iran newspaper said the group – identified as Ikhwan al-Radwan, or Brothers of Heaven in Arabic – attacked the Saudi Arabian Airlines office with several Molotov cocktails on Wednesday, causing minor damage to the building.

Today’s newspaper report quotes a statement by the group saying the reason for the attack was Saudi Arabia’s support for an Arab peace initiative.

The initiative offers Israel normal relations with all Arab countries if it withdraws from lands occupied in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and allows the creation of a Palestinian state with a capital in Jerusalem.