the UNITED states is ready for a response after Saturday’s attack against saudi oil facilities.
It writes the president of the UNITED states, Donald Trump, on Twitter on the night of Monday.
‘There is reason to believe that we know the perpetrators. We are ready, depending on the confirmation, but we are waiting to hear who the Saudi Arabia believes is behind the attack, and the conditions under which we should continue,’ writes Trump.
Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on an implementation, but are waiting two hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2019
this is The first time that Trump has hinted at a possible military response to the attack, which temporarily destroyed half of Saudi Arabia’s oil production.
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Satellite photos showing what is supposed to be a drone strikes against a saudi oil facility. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
After the attack, said a spokesman for the iranskstøttede houthi rebels in Yemen, as a saudiskledet coalition has fought in five years, that the movement was behind the ten drone strikes on olieanlæggene in western Saudi Arabia.
Subsequently wrote the UNITED states secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, on Twitter, that he believes that Iran is behind the attack.
It was Iran’s ministry of foreign affairs to criticize the UNITED states.
– Such futile and blind accusations and remarks is unintelligible and meaningless, said the spokesman for the ministry Abbas Mousavi, according to the AFP news agency.
Iraq has also denied being involved.
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It is yet unknown who is behind the attacks. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Saudi Arabia has not yet announced officially out, who the country believes is responsible.
the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, said that Saudi Arabia is ready to respond to this terrorist attack’.
the Price of crude oil has increased by over ten percent after Saturday’s drone strikes.
In august, Saudi-Arabia, which is the world’s largest exporter of oil, a dagsproduktion at 9,85 million barrels.
