Riyaz Patel
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has called for an “international response” to what he described as “cowardly attacks” on oil facilities in the kingdom over the weekend.
The monarch said the international community needed “to shoulder its responsibility in condemning the perpetrators” by “clearly confronting” those behind Saturday’s attacks which targeted two Saudi Aramco sites, Abqaiq and Khurais, in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Details about the attacks, which were initially claimed by Houthi rebels battling the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, remain unclear.
Riyadh has said Iranian weapons were used, but stopped short of blaming Tehran directly.
US media reported Monday that American officials had shared intelligence with Riyadh, indicating that Iran was the staging ground for the attacks.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that US officials had determined that “Iran launched more than 20 drones and at least a dozen missiles.”
President Donald Trump has said that the US is ready
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