Saudi Arabia today presented the remains of what it said were Iranian drones and cruise missiles used in an attack on Saudi oil facilities as "irrefutable" evidence of Iranian aggression.
Saudi Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Turki al-Malik said a total of 25 drones and missiles were launched at two oil facilities in attacks last weekend, including Iranian "delta wing" drones and "ya ali" missiles allegedly used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
"The attack was carried out from the north and undoubtedly Iran is behind it," Malki said at a press conference.
"The evidence... you see irrefutably points to that," he said.
Iran denies involvement in the attack that cut Saudi oil production in half, and the adviser to the Iranian president said yesterday after the Saudi announcement that Riyadh actually proved that it "knows nothing."
"The press conference proved that Saudi Arabia knows nothing about where the missiles and drones were manufactured or from where they were launched and did not explain how their defense systems did not intercept them," Hesamedin Ashena, an adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, tweeted. Ruhani.
Responsibility for the attack on the Saudi installations was claimed by the Houthi rebels who are fighting in Yemen against the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
They threatened that dozens of locations in the United Arab Emirates were on their list of possible targets for attacks.
A military spokesman for the group, which is linked to Iran, said that they have new drones with enhanced engines and that they can hit targets deep inside the territory of Saudi Arabia.
Malki, who is also the spokesman for the Saudi military coalition, repeated today that the attack could not have been carried out from Yemen, claiming that Iran was only hiding behind the Houthi rebels.
The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, announced today that he has ordered the Secretary of the Treasury to "significantly increase sanctions" against Iran for the attacks that Washington also blamed on Tehran.
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