(Press tv) -- The trip marked the US clinching a record $110-billion arms deal with the kingdom, accompanied by a sword dance which caught many eyes.
"What is happening is the preliminary result of the sword dance," Hamid Aboutalebi, deputy chief of staff of Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, tweeted on Monday after Riyadh took the lead to cut ties with Qatar followed by the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt.
The official took aim at a Saudi-led military coalition which was branded as "Arab NATO" during Trump's visit as Iran was cited an adversary.
“I had already written that the era of creating coalitions and Big Brothers is over, and political imperialism, security clannishness, occupation, and invasion is not going to bring about anything other than insecurity,” Aboutalebi wrote.
“Today, I am writing that the era of sanctions is over too, and cutting diplomatic ties, closing borders, laying sieges on countries, and ejecting countries out of the selfsame coalition, etc. is not the way out of the crisis,” he added.
Saudi Arabia's move reminisced the kingdom's freezing of diplomatic relations with Iran last January, which was followed by Bahrain and a few small nations. Riyadh pounced on angry protests outside its diplomatic missions in Tehran and Mashhad following its execution of prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr to cut ties with Iran.
Tensions escalated between Riyadh and Doha after Trump's visit because of an article in Qatar's state-run news agency in which the emir criticized the US, Saudi Arabia, and their client states for attempting to stir up tensions with “Islamic power” Iran.
Saudi media accused Qatar of having “betrayed” the other Arab countries particularly at a time when they had attempted to stage a show of “unity” against Iran in an extravagant series of events in Riyadh.
Aboutalebi chided Saudi Arabia and its allies for the "fragile" coalition, saying "these countries have no other option but to start regional dialog."
The US cited Iran as the target of the arms deal, saying it was meant to curb what it called the Islamic Republic's “adverse influence” in the region.
“You cannot do a sword dance at one place, and court others elsewhere,” Aboutalebi said.