{"id":291816,"date":"2019-09-16T07:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T07:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291816"},"modified":"2019-09-16T07:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T07:08:30","slug":"iran-refutes-us-accusations-over-saudi-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-refutes-us-accusations-over-saudi-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran refutes US accusations over Saudi attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Sunday dismissed US accusations it was behind drone attacks on Saudi oil installations, suggesting the United States was seeking a pretext to retaliate against the Islamic republic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such fruitless and blind accusations and remarks are incomprehensible and meaningless,&#8221; foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi was quoted as saying in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned Iran after Saturday&#8217;s attacks, which knocked out half of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil production.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s Iran-aligned Shiite Huthi rebels claimed responsibility for the drone strikes, but Pompeo said &#8220;there is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Sunday dismissed US accusations it was behind drone attacks on Saudi oil installations, suggesting the United States was seeking a pretext to retaliate against the Islamic republic. &#8220;Such fruitless and blind accusations and remarks are incomprehensible and meaningless,&#8221; foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi was quoted as saying in a statement. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned Iran after Saturday&#8217;s attacks, which knocked out half of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil production. Yemen&#8217;s Iran-aligned Shiite Huthi rebels claimed responsibility for the drone strikes, but Pompeo said &#8220;there is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen&#8221;.<\/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-291816","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\/291816","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=291816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}