{"id":195487,"date":"2019-09-28T06:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T06:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195487"},"modified":"2019-10-01T04:19:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T04:19:40","slug":"europeans-admit-they-didnt-know-who-attacked-saudi-oil-refineries-rouhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195487","title":{"rendered":"Europeans admit they didn\u2019t know who attacked Saudi oil refineries: Rouhani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Sept 27, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Iran\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani says the Europeans, who had blamed Iran for the recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities, have told him they did not know who was really behind the raid.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking on Friday upon arrival in Tehran after a visit to New York, Rouhani said during the trip he questioned some European leaders about their recent anti-Iran statement, in which they had somehow claimed Iran was responsible for the attacks on Aramco facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI asked them on what basis and evidence they were making such an allegation against Iran. I frankly and firmly told them to send me the evidence as I needed it,\u201d Rouhani said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey replied based on the investigations conducted by their experts, the capabilities of Yemenis, or as they say the Houthis, are less than [what required for] this operation,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI said alright, let\u2019s suppose they were not that much capable. Then who did it? They said they didn\u2019t know, but the attack had been launched from the north and the west\u201d of Yemen, Rouhani said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rouhani said\u00a0he questioned the logic of the Europeans\u2019 argument, and told them they lacked enough information about the Yemenis\u2019 capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI told them your information about the enemies of Yemen is very much, because you provide their arms. But you don\u2019t know about the capabilities of the Yemenis and the Houthis,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rouhani said\u00a0he warned the Europeans against the consequences of raising such baseless allegations. \u201cDo you understand the meaning of the accusation? It means chaos and fanning the flames of sedition and fire in the region,\u201d the president asked the Europeans, he said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey did not have any answer. I said I\u2019ll be waiting in Tehran to receive your evidence,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

On September 14, Yemen\u2019s Ansarullah movement and their allies in the Yemeni army deployed as many as 10 drones to bomb Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities run by the Saudi state-owned oil company Aramco.<\/span><\/p>\n

The unprecedented attack knocked out more than half of Saudi crude output, or five percent of global supply, prompting Saudi and US officials to claim without any evidence that it probably originated from Iraq or Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States and Saudi Arabia have, to various degrees, blamed Tehran for the attack on Aramco installations.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a joint statement on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined the US and Saudi Arabia in pinning the blame for the attack on Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

The three countries \u2014 which remain party to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran despite the US unilateral withdrawal last year \u2014 urged Iran to engage in dialog and \u201crefrain from choosing provocation and escalation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In reaction, Tehran strongly condemned the \u201cdestructive\u201d and \u201cprovocative\u201d claims made by the E3, warning that the trio will be responsible for the consequences of such \u201cirresponsible\u201d statements.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement on Tuesday, Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry said it is \u201chighly destructive and provocative\u201d in itself to hold a third government responsible for an attack that was carried out during an all-out war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, while the latter has claimed responsibility, let alone rushing to conclusions without any probe and only based on \u201ca ridiculous rationale.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It added that such remarks and measures would only fuel the flames of the Yemen war and may lead to its expansion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iranian President Rouhani says that in private European leaders admitted that they \u201cdidn\u2019t know\u201d who was behind the Aramco refinery attack. Despite having publicly blamed Iran <\/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":[61,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195487","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=195487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195491,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195487\/revisions\/195491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}