{"id":278601,"date":"2019-06-14T07:28:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278601"},"modified":"2019-06-14T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:35:12","slug":"iran-responsible-for-attacks-on-oil-tankers-in-gulf-of-oman-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-responsible-for-attacks-on-oil-tankers-in-gulf-of-oman-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran \u2018responsible\u2019 for attacks on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman: US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of being behind attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, and said it was taking the case to the UN Security Council. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the assessment of the United States that the Islamic Republic of Iran is responsible for the attacks,\u201d Pompeo told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication,\u201d Pompeo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of being behind attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, and said it was taking the case to the UN Security Council. \u201cIt is the assessment of the United States that the Islamic Republic of Iran is responsible for the attacks,\u201d Pompeo told reporters. \u201cThis is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278601","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=278601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}