While Iran was absent from the corridors of the conference center, there was an urge for de-escalation among those present. Saudi finance minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said Riyadh, which holds the G20 presidency role, was calling for dialogue. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said he had told Trump that a war with Iran would be “a disaster for the world”. As well as wishing for tensions to calm, one Saudi official made clear the weigh of that obligation rest with Iran. “The escalation is really coming from the Iranian side,” Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi’s minister of state for foreign affairs, told a Davos panel on “The Unsettled Middle East”.

Source: Pakistan Today January 24, 2020 12:45 UTC