{"id":15163,"date":"2019-09-16T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15163"},"modified":"2019-09-16T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:11:42","slug":"us-says-intelligence-shows-iran-involved-with-saudi-oil-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/us-says-intelligence-shows-iran-involved-with-saudi-oil-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"US says intelligence shows Iran involved with Saudi oil attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The US has showed satellite images and cited intelligence to back up their claims that Iran was behind the attacks on the major Saudi oil facilities. Iran denies any involvement in the air attacks on Saturday.\u00a0Officials said the photos show impacts consistent with the attack coming from the direction of Iran or Iraq.\u00a0The satellite images show where the damage which has been done in the attacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Satellite images provided to <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBSNews<\/a> by a US official show 19 points of impact damaging 17 structures at the Abqaiq facility and 2 at the Khurais facility on the west-northwest side of the targets, which would be inconsistent with an attack from Yemen to the south. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yXa65dTXpp\">pic.twitter.com\/yXa65dTXpp<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Sara Cook (@saraecook) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saraecook\/status\/1173415086054084609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">US President Donald Trump has said that his country is \u201clocked and loaded\u201d to respond after the attack that cut into global energy supplies and halved the oil production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Saturday attack has cut global oil supplies by 5% and prices have increased rapidly. The attack started at \u00a004:00 local time, there is currently no reports of injuries but there is damage to the facilities but the extent is unclear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Saudis have been at war with Iran-aligned Houthi rebels since early 2015 when the Houthis took control of much of the west of the country and forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1173368423381962752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has showed satellite images and cited intelligence to back up their claims that Iran was behind the attacks on the major Saudi oil facilities. Iran denies any involvement in the air attacks on Saturday.\u00a0Officials said the photos show impacts consistent with the attack coming from the direction of Iran or Iraq.\u00a0The satellite images&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":15165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15166,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions\/15166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}