Iran Fired Cruise Missiles In Attack On Saudi Oil facility: Senior US Official

ABC News ^ | 09/15/19

[Enlightened1]

Iran launched nearly a dozen cruise missiles and over 20 drones from its territory in the attack on a key Saudi oil facility Saturday, a senior Trump administration official told ABC News Sunday.

It is an extraordinary charge to make, that Iran used missiles and drones to attack its neighbor and rival Saudi Arabia, as the region teeters on the edge of high tensions.

President Donald Trump warned the U.S. was "locked and loaded" to respond to the attack on Sunday, waiting for verification of who was responsible and for word from Saudi Arabia on how to proceed.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/iran-fired-cruise-missiles-attack-saudi-oil-facility/story?id=65632653

 

 

[Magnum44]

We don’t get a say in the matter.

Only in how we vote.

[Sequoyah101]

already did.

[Sam Gamgee]

I’m still asking why the hell should we care about Iran attacking the Saudis? Both parties deserve the ire of the USA.

[Sam Gamgee]

Yes Israel is pushing for its own interests, which at times do not align with the interests of Americans.

[Sam Gamgee]

I’m with you. Let’s give them even bigger guns to hurt each other more.

[itsahoot]

Now that you’ve been called on the carpet and had your cyber ears boxed, maybe next time you will qualify your research to make it more worthy of ingestion.

You act like he stuff you research is more valuable than any other research all the while ignoring the fact that no matter where you search, what you see is always determined by someone else.

[Hostage]

This subject I know without internet searches.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3779039/posts?page=82#82

And you should refrain from inserting yourself into someone else’s pissing episode.

[itsahoot]

We disagree but it really doesn’t matter anyway. We don’t get a say in the matter.

News Flash! Sanity invades FreeRepublic!

[The Toll]

I’m late to this story since it morphed into cruise missiles. Do we not have assets in the middle east that detect regionally launched weapons? You would think that we would.

[PA Engineer]

It is hard to keep up with debunking the conspiracy junk from the willfully uninformed. Do some research, people.

Yep.

One of over a hundred incidents going back at least 5 years. Houthis fire cruise missile at Saudi Arabian airport

I have an idea for the conspiracy loudmouths. Just search (not google) for Houthis and cruise missiles.

Just because the occupation media is trying to make the Houthis out as innocent victims, does not mean they are innocent. They are proxies of Iran.

This place is becoming DU.

[The Toll]

You are able to discern the difference in severity of the situation had these missiles been fired from Iranian territory correct? The Saudi’s bomb Yemen all the time, that’s not an escalation.

[PA Engineer]

You are able to discern the difference in severity of the situation had these missiles been fired from Iranian territory correct? The Saudi’s bomb Yemen all the time, that’s not an escalation.

Go to google earth and study Saudi Arabia (SA) and the surrounding geography. I am intimately aware of both the Khurais and Abqaiq GOSPS. There are multiple in each field. I have been to each one and the surrounding fields.

The Yemen and Saudi boarder is porous.

Look for the old Riyadh highway from Khurais to Hofuf and then Abqaiq. I know the attacks came from the west northwest. I have commented on it in other threads. Khurais is remote with some SA air assets in the area. Beyond that it is easy for Iranian "boots on the ground" to attack both facilities and then disappear with logistical support from the Houthis and potentially tribal support in Hofuf.

The NG tanks were low hanging fruit, however ingenious. It did not take sophisticated weapons to penetrate a pressurize vessel and ignite the gas. SA at one time flared all the gas until they began gathering it for desalination, electric power and export via a new parallel NG line in the east west pipeline corridor to Yanbu. We'll never know, however I would not be surprised that internal security was lax and unimaginative.

SA can easily start production again by flaring it. The flares are still there. The repairs will take place quickly. Anyone that has worked in Kingdom with Aramco knows this.

The "missiles" could have been fired from Iranian territory, however I believe Iran launched them in country with the help of the Houthis. Either way it is till Iran. Launched from Iran or smuggled into Hofuf. The attack on Khurais was the biggest tell. I don't expect the US or SA to reveal all of their intel. I do expect to see a lot of beheadings in the coming months.

Launched from within SA by Iran would be a major escalation. I can understand why they don't want the real truth to come out if that is the case.

[Uncle Miltie]

Citation, please.

[itsahoot]

Citation, please.

For my opinion? Ok that was my opinion. That was aimed at Hostage, he didn't like the comment either.

[Zathras]

...while our CIA was working hard to protect us from Russia Russia Russia.

[MHGinTN]

Israel has everything to gain by drawing everyone else into a war against Iran. Figure out how Israel could pull it off and you will have an answer to this puzzle. IMHO

[CodeToad]

We knew it the second the missile was launched.

[free_life]

Yes let the sanctions continue and let the Iranian people deal with their unwanted leaders.

[SJackson]

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[SJackson]

Where would they get the cruise missiles?

Iran manufactures short, intermediate and long range ground to ground cruise missles. Nuclear capable they claim.