Washington will announce sanctions on Iran “over the next 48 hours” in response to an attack on two Saudi oil facilities last weekend blamed on Tehran, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
“We’ll be adding some very significant sanctions onto Iran,” Trump told reporters in Los Angeles.
He tweeted earlier he instructed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to “substantially” increase economic sanctions on Iran.
Asked if he was looking at a military strike, Trump said the U.S. has “many options.”
Iran, however, again denied involvement in the Sept 14 raids, which hit the world’s biggest crude processing facility and initially knocked out half of Saudi production.
“They want to impose maximum pressure on Iran through slander,” Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said.
“We don’t want conflict in the region … Who started the conflict?” he added, blaming Washington and its Gulf allies for the war in Yemen.
