Second Attack on Riyadh Airport Kills One, Injures 11 as Iran Calls US Hormuz Response Insufficient

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh was struck by a projectile on Sunday evening, October 11, killing one Pakistani resident and injuring 11 others, according to Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation reported by Al Jazeera, NBC News, and CBS News on October 12. The attack on terminals 3 and 4 occurred one day after a Saturday strike killed 12 people and wounded 309, with India's embassy in Saudi Arabia reporting on October 12 that an Indian citizen died Sunday of injuries sustained in the Saturday attack, raising that toll to 13. The Houthis claimed both attacks and warned airlines to avoid Saudi airspace except over Mecca and Medina. Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said on Sunday that the United States had accepted some of Iran's seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz but called Washington's response insufficient, according to Iranian state media reported by GMA Network, Israel National News, and Iran International on October 12.

The simultaneous intensification in Yemen and diplomatic impasse over Hormuz leave both Washington and Riyadh without clear paths to de-escalation, while Iranian lawmaker Ahmad Naderi said Sunday Iran insists the strait remain closed, according to Mehr news agency reported by Iran International.

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