{"id":403802,"date":"2021-03-09T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403802"},"modified":"2021-03-09T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:42:24","slug":"us-vows-to-defend-saudi-arabia-after-attack-on-key-oil-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-vows-to-defend-saudi-arabia-after-attack-on-key-oil-site\/","title":{"rendered":"US vows to defend Saudi Arabia after attack on key oil site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States said its commitment to defend Saudi Arabia is \u201cunwavering\u201d after oil infrastructure in the kingdom came under missile and drone attack. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US embassy condemns the recent Houthi attacks on the kingdom of Saudi Arabia,\u201d the American mission in Riyadh said via Twitter. \u201cThe heinous attacks on civilians and vital infrastructure demonstrate their lack of respect for human life and their lack of interest in the pursuit of peace.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The attacks on Sunday were intercepted, Saudi Arabia said, and oil output appeared to be unaffected. But the latest in a spate of assaults claimed by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen briefly pushed oil prices to above $70 a barrel for the first time since January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States said its commitment to defend Saudi Arabia is \u201cunwavering\u201d after oil infrastructure in the kingdom came under missile and drone attack. \u201cThe US embassy condemns the recent Houthi attacks on the kingdom of Saudi Arabia,\u201d the American mission in Riyadh said via Twitter. \u201cThe heinous attacks on civilians and vital infrastructure demonstrate their lack of respect for human life and their lack of interest in the pursuit of peace.\u201d The attacks on Sunday were intercepted, Saudi Arabia said, and oil output appeared to be unaffected. But the latest in a spate of assaults claimed by Iran-backed Houthi [&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-403802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403802","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=403802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}