Saudi Arabias Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Defense called for more pressure to be exerted against Iran economically and politically to avoid a direct military confrontation in the region. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Friday, the Crown Prince said sanctions “will create more pressure on the regime" in Iran. “If we don’t succeed in what we are trying to do, we will likely have war with Iran in 10-15 years,” he added. Regarding the war in Yemen, Crown Prince Mohammed said consequences would have been worse if they did not act there. “If we didn’t act in 2015 we would have had Yemen divided in half between the Houthis and al Qaeda,” he said. Prince Mohammed described the missiles fired against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Houthis as sign of weakness saying: “they want to do whatever they can do before they collapse.” The prince’s comments came days after 7 ballistic missiles were fired at Saudi Arabia, 3 of which targeted Riyadh, and which were intercepted by the Saudi Air Defense Forces. The UN Security Council condemned the Houthi missile attacks targeting Saudi cities and stressed that they pose "a serious national security threat to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as a wider threat to regional security." Of The Muslim Brotherhood, the crown prince said: "The Muslim Brotherhood is an incubator for terrorists..We have to get rid of extremism. Without extremism no one can become a terrorist.”