{"id":291724,"date":"2019-09-16T06:11:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T06:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291724"},"modified":"2019-09-16T06:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T06:11:58","slug":"attack-on-saudi-oil-sites-raises-risks-amid-us-iran-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/attack-on-saudi-oil-sites-raises-risks-amid-us-iran-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack on Saudi oil sites raises risks amid US-Iran tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom&#8217;s oilNSE -0.85 % production threatened Sunday to fuel regional tensions, as Iran denied U.S. allegations it launched the assault and tensions remained high over Tehran&#8217;s collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.<\/p>\n<p>Iran called the U.S. claims &#8220;maximum lies,&#8221; while a commander in its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard reiterated its forces could strike U.S. military bases across the Mideast with its arsenal of ballistic missiles. A prominent U.S. senator suggested striking Iranian oil refineries in response for the assault claimed by Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s largest oil processing facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom&#8217;s oilNSE -0.85 % production threatened Sunday to fuel regional tensions, as Iran denied U.S. allegations it launched the assault and tensions remained high over Tehran&#8217;s collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. Iran called the U.S. claims &#8220;maximum lies,&#8221; while a commander in its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard reiterated its forces could strike U.S. military bases across the Mideast with its arsenal of ballistic missiles. A prominent U.S. senator suggested striking Iranian oil refineries in response for the assault claimed by Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthi [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291724","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=291724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}