{"id":195063,"date":"2019-09-20T07:21:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195063"},"modified":"2019-09-22T07:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T07:07:22","slug":"air-raid-sirens-tested-across-saudi-capital-as-country-prepares-for-conflict-escalation-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195063","title":{"rendered":"Air raid sirens tested across Saudi capital as country prepares for conflict escalation with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josie Ensor \u2013 The Telegraph Sept 19, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran does no want war but is ready for “all-out war\u201d if necessary. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Air raid sirens were tested across the Saudi Arabian capital\u00a0on Thursday as the country prepared for a possible escalation with Iran, following a weekend attack on its oil fields raised the stakes in the conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

Text messages were sent out to residents ahead of the 1pm tests in Riyadh and neighbouring provinces, which civil defence said was to ensure the sirens were \u201ceffective and ready.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The US and Saudi are considering their response to Saturday\u2019s assault on key oil facilities which left the kingdom reeling.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked whether military retaliation was being considered, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Saudi\u2019s ambassador to Germany, said “everything is on the table.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Trump, the US president, has struck a more cautious note, saying there were many options short of war with Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said there was \u201cplenty of time to do some dastardly things\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trump administration has reportedly been briefed on a number of possible options for retaliatory action against Iran, which is believed to be behind the assault, including a cyberattack or physical strike on Iranian oil facilities or Revolutionary Guard Corp assets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe US stands with Saudi Arabia and supports its right to defend itself,\u201d Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, tweeted from Jeddah following a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Pompeo said the attack on the world\u2019s largest oil processing plant and knocked out half of Saudi\u2019s production, was “of a scale we’ve just not seen before”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranian regime\u2019s threatening behavior will not be tolerated,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Javad Zarif, Iran\u2019s foreign minister, said any US or Saudi military strike against Iran would result in “all-out war\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Act of war\u2019 or agitation for war?\u201d he said in a tweet. \u201cFor their own sake, they should pray that they won\u2019t get what they seek.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview later with CNN, he said: “I am making a very serious statement that we don’t want war; we don’t want to engage in a military confrontation… But we won’t blink to defend our territory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Riyadh, which said it is still investigating the assault, on Wednesday displayed the remnants of 25 Iranian drones and missiles it said were used in the strike as undeniable evidence of Iranian aggression.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Javad Zarif, Iran\u2019s foreign minister, warns that any military strike on Iran will result in “all-out war\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195063"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195087,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195063\/revisions\/195087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}