Saudi Arabia will consider all options, including military action, to respond to the bombing of oil facilities that Iran is accused of being behind, the Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs said.
In remarks on Tuesday, Jubeir stressed that Riyadh would consider all options, including military action, after the investigation into the September 14 attack on oil facilities was completed.
"We would like to avoid war at all costs, but we will not sit idly by," he said.
"The Iranians are not serious about dealing with the negotiations and they want the sanctions to be lifted so that they can continue to stall."
The Houthi group has claimed responsibility for attacks on two Saudi Aramco oil facilities, but Riyadh, Washington and some Western capitals have said the attacks were carried out by Iran.
In a related context, the Saudi minister said that his country was accurate in its bombing in Yemen, "but the media blames us for everything that happens there."
On another matter, al-Jubeir said that his country's authorities did not kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but killed his clients without permission.
"We did not kill Jamal Khashoggi but were killed by agents of the Saudi government without an official decision," he said.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside his country's consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
According to leaks from the Turkish side, Khashoggi was brutally murdered by a Saudi team and disposed of his body after being cut off.
After weeks of denial, Saudi Arabia admitted killing Khashoggi but denied it had ordered it.