{"id":199133,"date":"2019-12-11T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199133"},"modified":"2019-12-14T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T07:31:26","slug":"un-unable-to-verify-claims-iran-was-behind-saudi-aramco-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199133","title":{"rendered":"UN \u2018unable\u2019 to verify claims Iran was behind Saudi Aramco attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 Dec 11, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_194946\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194946\" class=\"wp-image-194946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Damage-to-Saudi-oil-facility2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Damage-to-Saudi-oil-facility2.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Damage-to-Saudi-oil-facility2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-194946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yemen&#8217;s Houthis claim their drones struck the Saudi oil facility. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia say Iran was responsible. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the world body\u2019s investigators are \u201cunable to independently corroborate\u201d the US and Saudi claims that Iran was behind attacks on the kingdom&#8217;s Aramco oil facilities in September.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Guterres announced in a report on Tuesday that all the debris from the weapons used against Saudi Arabia\u2019s state oil company Aramco had been examined and the UN could not yet verify anti-Iran claims made by Washington and Riyadh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cAt this time, it is unable to independently corroborate that the cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles used in these attacks are of Iranian origin,\u201d Guterres wrote in his semi-annual Iran report to the Security Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The UN chief added that the world body is \u201cstill collecting and analyzing additional information on these cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles\u201d and would report additional findings in \u201cdue course.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The attacks, which hit Aramco\u2019s oil facilities in Khurais and Abqaiq in east of Saudi Arabia on September 14, were claimed by Yemen\u2019s Houthi Ansartullah movement but the kingdom and the US were adamant to blame it on Iran without evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran has rejected the allegations of any involvement and said the attack was a legitimate act of self-defense by Yemen, which has been under incessant strikes by the Saudi-led coalition since 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The attacks cut nearly half of Saudi Arabia\u2019s total oil production and sent shockwaves across the global markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Saudi Arabia has constantly denied the attacks would have any impact on the kingdom\u2019s finances, with the government estimating that GDP growth would stand at around 1.9% at the end of 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/12\/11\/613360\/UN-Antonio-Guterres-US-Saudi-claims-Iran-involvement-Aramco-facilities-attacks\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN says it is \u201cunable to independently corroborate\u201d U.S. and Saudi claims that Iran was responsible for the strikes on Aramco\u2019s oil facilities<\/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-199133","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\/199133","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=199133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199136,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199133\/revisions\/199136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}