Tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia while Rouhani and Zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy. Amid all the calls for de-escalation, Iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply. There is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen.
3:59 PM · Sep 14, 2019
Drone strikes knock out half of Saudi oil capacity, 5 million barrels a day
To absolutely no ones surprise. However, even if we learned the attacks did indeed come from Yemen. The Houthi’s are an Iranian proxy group. So, in-fact it would make little difference.
Holy sh!t, this is truly huge.
If Iran directly attacked Saudi oil infrastructure, oil is headed to $125 and war is on the near horizon.
Let them it out.
Maybe someone should ask JF’nK and/or BO where did Iran get the money for drones etc?
Secretary Pompeo @SecPompeo
We call on all nations to publicly and unequivocally condemn Iran’s attacks. The United States will work with our partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and Iran is held accountable for its aggression
3:59 PM · Sep 14, 2019
Hopefully the Saudis will launch an attack on Iran and wipe out their oil facilities.
Iran will be toast.
The day after Bolton’s out, they attack. No connection there.
I don’t care who is responsible. This is not our fight. They did not attack any US bases and even if there are US workers at the site they were not specifically targeted.
The good news is that Saudi Arabia says production will return to normal levels by Monday. Se previous post. on FreeRepublic board.
It’s may be the only thing that Iran does that i will approve of EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Iran is behind these attacks, no doubt about it.
We have mutual defense agreements with Saudi Arabia.
There is no doubt in my mind that they USA is right now involved in the strikes of retaliation against both the terrorist organization who actually made these attacks and Iran for sponsoring the attacks.
If Iran is not held accountable for their actions this time then next time the attacks and the retaliatory strikes will just be larger and more deadly.
This is not going away all by itself.
“Days before Ansar Allah overran the Yemeni government’s fallback capital of Aden in March 2015, Tehran announced the commencement of an air bridge47 between Iran and Sana’a with a twice-daily shuttle service operated by Mahan Air, a government-controlled airline used by the IRGC Quds Force to ferry trainers and equipment to warzones.48 Leaders who were present in Sana’a in late 2014 suggest that Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian trainers entered on these flights and up to 300 Yemenis were sent to Iran for training.49 k At the same time, in March 2015, both Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya news networks reported that an Iranian cargo ship had unloaded 180 tons of military equipment in the Red Sea port of Al-Saleef under conditions of tight security.50 According to Lebanese government officials, Iran supplied a small number of pilots to the Houthi movement in 2014 for unknown reasons.”
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“Other less advanced but nonetheless important new weapons systems have also been debuted in the Houthi arsenal since 2015.af One is Ansar Allah’s Qasef-1 unmanned aerial vehicle, which the United Nations stated was “virtually identical in design, dimensions and capability to that of the Ababil-T, manufactured by the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries.”78 Based on the design of the UAVs and the tracing of component parts, the panel concluded that the material necessary to assemble the Qasef-1s “emanated from the Islamic Republic of Iran.”79 An average of six Qasef-1 UAVs with explosive warheads have been launched each month since April 2017 by Ansar Allah, initially aimed at Gulf coalition Patriot missile batteries (to disrupt defenses ahead of surface-to-surface missile strikes) but increasingly against command centers (with unitary warheads at ranges up to 60 miles using GPS guidance) and even frontline troops (with bomb-releasing reusable UAVs under radio control).”
Lots more here
https://ctc.usma.edu/houthi-war-machine-guerrilla-war-state-capture/
Has Iran blamed Israel yet?