Monday, September 16, 2019

Saudi-led coalition: the arms used in the attack were almost certainly Iranian, but the attack did not originate from Yemen

Where the investigation stands at present:

The Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen's Houthi movement said on Monday that the attack on Saudi Arabian oil plants was carried out with Iranian weapons and was not launched from Yemen according to preliminary findings.
Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said that an investigation into Saturday's strikes, which had been claimed by the Iran-aligned Houthi group, was still going on to determine the launch location.
"The preliminary results show that the weapons are Iranian and we are currently working to determine the location ... The terrorist attack did not originate from Yemen as the Houthi militia claimed," Malki told a press conference in Riyadh.
He said authorities would reveal the location from where drones were launched at a future press briefing.
What we do know is that the situation is having a history-making effect on the price of Brent crude:

Oil prices soared after a coordinated attack hit the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on Saturday, forcing the kingdom to cut its oil output in half.
Brent crude futures, the international benchmark, rose as much as 19.5% to $71.95 per barrel at the open, the biggest intraday jump on record. By early afternoon, the contract was at $69.06, up $8.84 or 14.71%.

I do believe I'll gas up the car when I head out in a few minutes.

2 comments:

  1. What is going on is they want to draw us into the chaos of war, dontcha think? That plus the abrupt about face on diplomacy under Trump. This did not happen in a vacuum.

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  2. It's true that the proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia has been building for some time - oil tanker attacks, missiles fired from Yemen at Riyadh, etc. - and that it has its roots in the Sunni - Shia split within Islam. And the US is allied with Saudi Arabia, principally because Iran has been the self-declared enemy of the US since 1979 and poses the main threat to the Middle East. So, yes, this did not happen in a vacuum.

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