Saudi Energy: Iran is arming the Houthis to target oil and gas production sites



Saudi Energy: Iran is arming the Houthis to target oil and gas production sites

She emphasized that the militias target the security and stability of energy supplies to global markets.

An official source in the Saudi Ministry of Energy stated that the petroleum products distribution station in the north of Jeddah was attacked at (5:25) in the evening of Friday, 22 Shaban 1443 AH, corresponding to March 25, 2022 AD, with a missile projectile, and the "Al-Mukhtara" station in the Jazan region was attacked. At five o'clock this evening, too, an attack with a rocket-propelled grenade was launched, and these criminal attacks did not result in injuries or deaths.

The source expressed the Kingdom's strong condemnation of these sabotage attacks, the repeated perpetration of vital installations and civilian objects in different regions of the Kingdom, in violation of all international laws and norms.

The source confirmed what the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had previously announced that it would not bear any responsibility for any shortage of oil supplies to global markets, in light of the continuous sabotage attacks on its oil facilities by the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia.

The source stressed that the Kingdom stresses the importance of the international community being aware of the danger of Iran continuing to provide the terrorist Houthi militias with ballistic missile technologies and advanced unmanned aircraft, with which they target oil and gas production sites and their derivatives in the Kingdom, indicating the serious effects of the production, processing and refining sectors. Which will lead to an impact on the Kingdom's production capacity and its ability to fulfill its obligations to global markets, which undoubtedly threatens the security and stability of energy supplies to global markets.

The source stressed that it has become clear that these terrorist sabotage attacks, and those behind them, do not target the Kingdom alone, but also aim to destabilize the security and stability of energy supplies in the world, and thus negatively affect the global economy, especially in these extremely sensitive circumstances that the world is witnessing and the markets are witnessing. Global Energy, calling on the countries and organizations of the world to stand against these attacks, and to confront all parties that implement or support them.

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  • Arab media


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