May 23, The Iran Project – A group of Pakistani politicians have criticized anti-Iran claims and policies US president and Saudi leaders made in the Arabic Islamic American Summit on Sunday.

Reacting to the recent anti-Iran comments made by US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud during the Arabic Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said both Saudi Arabia and the US have their own foreign policies and it is not necessary that other countries would also agree to them.

Sanaullah also expressed that by giving a statement against Iran, the US president has actually violated the diplomatic etiquette.

The recent anti-Iran claims by Donald Trump will not only create troubles for Saudi Arabia but also for the United States of America since such statements about the Islamic Republic could backfire and increase pro-Iranian sympathies, Punjab Law Minister added.

Denouncing remarks by US President Donald Trump against Iran during his visit to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan lashed out at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over taking part in the Arabic Islamic American Summit and termed his tour to Saudi Arabia as ineffective.

He also criticized the prime minister’s ‘silence’ during the recent Summit in Riyadh, saying Nawaz Sharif should have commented on US President Donald Trump’s speech wherein he accused Iran of fuelling “the fires of sectarian conflict and terror” and called for its international isolation.

“Isolating Iran is not in the interest of the Muslim world or of Pakistan,” added the Pakistani official.

Attending the Arabic Islamic American Summit at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh on May 21, US president Donald Trump made some anti-Iran accusations, saying “From Lebanon to Iraq to Yemen, Iran funds, arms and trains terrorists, militias and other extremist groups that spread destruction and chaos across the region.”

On the other hand, Robert Fisk, a celebrated English writer and journalist, wrote in an article  that Trump utterly ignored “the fact that Saudi Arabia, not Iran, is the fountainhead of the very Wahhabi Salafist extremism whose ‘terrorists’ murder ‘innocent people.’”

Less than a year ago on the campaign trail, Trump vilified the Saudi influence on US foreign policy, openly accused the kingdom of being complicit in the 9/11 terror attacks, and demanded the US be paid for protecting the monarchy.

The US and Saudi Arabia, along with a number of their regional allies, stand accused of providing weapons and financial backing to various militant groups wreaking havoc in countries like Syria and Iraq.