{"id":291633,"date":"2019-09-16T05:36:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291633"},"modified":"2019-09-16T05:36:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:36:06","slug":"us-blames-iran-for-saudi-oil-strikes-engaging-in-false-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-blames-iran-for-saudi-oil-strikes-engaging-in-false-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"US blames Iran for Saudi oil strikes, engaging in false diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused Iran of leading attacks on Saudi oil plants that have cut the kingdom&#8217;s output roughly in half, as he ruled out Yemeni involvement and denounced Tehran for engaging in false diplomacy. <\/p>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s Iran-aligned Houthi group claimed credit for the attacks on two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil industry, including the world&#8217;s biggest petroleum processing facility. <\/p>\n<p>Pompeo, however, said on Twitter that there was no evidence the attacks came from Yemen. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia while Rouhani and Zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy,&#8221; Pompeo said, referring to Iran&#8217;s President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused Iran of leading attacks on Saudi oil plants that have cut the kingdom&#8217;s output roughly in half, as he ruled out Yemeni involvement and denounced Tehran for engaging in false diplomacy. Yemen&#8217;s Iran-aligned Houthi group claimed credit for the attacks on two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil industry, including the world&#8217;s biggest petroleum processing facility. Pompeo, however, said on Twitter that there was no evidence the attacks came from Yemen. &#8220;Tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia while Rouhani and Zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy,&#8221; [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291633","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=291633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}