{"id":274784,"date":"2019-05-16T06:47:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274784"},"modified":"2019-05-16T06:47:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:47:16","slug":"saudi-oil-facilities-attacked-us-sees-threat-in-iraq-from-iran-backed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-oil-facilities-attacked-us-sees-threat-in-iraq-from-iran-backed-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi oil facilities attacked; US sees threat in Iraq from Iran-backed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia said armed drones struck two of its oil pumping stations on Tuesday, two days after the sabotage of oil tankers near the United Arab Emirates, and the US military said it was braced for \u201cpossibly imminent threats to US forces in Iraq\u201d from Iran-backed forces.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks took place against a backdrop of US-Iranian tension following Washington\u2019s decision this month to try to cut Iran\u2019s oil exports to zero and to beef up its military presence in the Gulf in response to what it said were Iranian threats.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s attacks on the pumping stations more than 200 miles (320 km) west of Riyadh and Sunday\u2019s on four tankers off Fujairah emirate have raised concerns that the United States and Iran might inching toward military conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia said armed drones struck two of its oil pumping stations on Tuesday, two days after the sabotage of oil tankers near the United Arab Emirates, and the US military said it was braced for \u201cpossibly imminent threats to US forces in Iraq\u201d from Iran-backed forces. The attacks took place against a backdrop of US-Iranian tension following Washington\u2019s decision this month to try to cut Iran\u2019s oil exports to zero and to beef up its military presence in the Gulf in response to what it said were Iranian threats. Tuesday\u2019s attacks on the pumping stations more than 200 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,223,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274784","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}