Houthi militants in Yemen have warned foreign diplomats that Iran is preparing a follow-up strike to the missile and drone attack that crippled Saudi Arabia's oil industry a week ago, people familiar with the matter said.
Saudi Arabian officials are concerned about an another attack on the oil industry or a strike on civilian airports, including the one in Riyadh, the capital.
Some Houthi leaders see Iran as their only hope of winning the fight with Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis seized the Yemeni capital San'a in 2014 and now hold a large chunk of the country's north along the Saudi border, fighting a civil war with Iranian backing against the Saudi-led coalition.
Iran has dismissed the U.S. and Saudi accusations that it is behind the strike as propaganda meant to isolate Tehran as the Trump administration sanction's the country's economy.
U.S. officials suspect that Iranian forces used a base in southwestern Iran to launch volleys of low-flying cruise missiles and advanced drones to attack Saudi Arabia.
On Saturday, Adel al Jubeir, Saudi Arabia's minister of state for foreign affairs, called the attacks "a criminal act conducted with Iranian weapons and so we hold Iran responsible for the attack that not only targeted the kingdom, but targeted the world as a whole."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/yemeni-rebels-warn-iran-plans-another-strike-soon-11569105344?mod=hp_lead_pos1
Saudi Arabian officials are concerned about an another attack on the oil industry or a strike on civilian airports, including the one in Riyadh, the capital.
Some Houthi leaders see Iran as their only hope of winning the fight with Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis seized the Yemeni capital San'a in 2014 and now hold a large chunk of the country's north along the Saudi border, fighting a civil war with Iranian backing against the Saudi-led coalition.
Iran has dismissed the U.S. and Saudi accusations that it is behind the strike as propaganda meant to isolate Tehran as the Trump administration sanction's the country's economy.
U.S. officials suspect that Iranian forces used a base in southwestern Iran to launch volleys of low-flying cruise missiles and advanced drones to attack Saudi Arabia.
On Saturday, Adel al Jubeir, Saudi Arabia's minister of state for foreign affairs, called the attacks "a criminal act conducted with Iranian weapons and so we hold Iran responsible for the attack that not only targeted the kingdom, but targeted the world as a whole."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/yemeni-rebels-warn-iran-plans-another-strike-soon-11569105344?mod=hp_lead_pos1
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