"What is happening today is massive surrender by the US to Iran; the Iranians are setting the tone, the US is releasing funds to Iran," he said.

Despite Iranian attacks, several GCC states continue to speak with Tehran in effort to mend ties and forge cooperation.

United States President Donald Trump has claimed the US has "knocked the hell out of Iran", saying Washington gave Tehran "a week off" to hold the funeral of its late supreme leader, as he defended his administration's actions during the recent conflict with Iran.

The current Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was one of the main absences in the funeral, while he hasn't been seen in the public eye since he was wounded at the begining of the war.

Two U.S. envoys arrived in Qatar on Tuesday for talks with mediators about the implementation of an initial deal to end the war in Iran, an official said. The visit by Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special Mideast envoy,

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Middle East peace efforts could not succeed without regional backing and that Israel must not be allowed to "dynamite"

The war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have caused a rift between the US and Saudi Arabia — leaving America to consider possibly reducing its military footprint in the kingdom, officials said.

Iran allegedly attacked commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz to counter a new southern corridor developed by the U.S. and Oman, analysts say.