{"id":274156,"date":"2019-05-14T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274156"},"modified":"2019-05-14T06:05:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:05:52","slug":"saudi-oil-tankers-hit-by-sabotage-attacks-as-gulf-tensions-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-oil-tankers-hit-by-sabotage-attacks-as-gulf-tensions-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi oil tankers hit by \u2018sabotage attacks\u2019 as Gulf tensions soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia said on Monday two of its oil tankers were damaged in mysterious \u201csabotage attacks\u201d in the Gulf as tensions soared in a region already shaken by a standoff between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>It came as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned visit to Moscow to head to Brussels instead for talks with European officials on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran called for an investigation into the \u201calarming\u201d attacks and warned of \u201cadventurism\u201d by foreign players to disrupt maritime security.<\/p>\n<p>Britain warned of the danger of conflict erupting \u201cby accident\u201d in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>The US has already strengthened its military presence in the region, including deploying a number of strategic B-52 bombers in response to alleged Iranian threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia said on Monday two of its oil tankers were damaged in mysterious \u201csabotage attacks\u201d in the Gulf as tensions soared in a region already shaken by a standoff between the United States and Iran. It came as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned visit to Moscow to head to Brussels instead for talks with European officials on Iran. Tehran called for an investigation into the \u201calarming\u201d attacks and warned of \u201cadventurism\u201d by foreign players to disrupt maritime security. Britain warned of the danger of conflict erupting \u201cby accident\u201d in the Gulf. The US has already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}