{"id":9356,"date":"2019-09-15T16:21:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T11:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2019-09-15T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T11:21:41","slug":"iran-rejects-u-s-accusations-over-saudi-oil-facility-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9356","title":{"rendered":"Iran Rejects U.S. Accusations Over Saudi Oil-Facility Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran \u00a0has dismissed accusations by the United States that Tehran was behind\u00a0 drone attacks \u00a0that set ablaze two major Saudi Aramco oil installations, as Saudi Arabia raced to restore operations at the damaged facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Sunday struck out at United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , tweeted &#8220;US and its clients are stuck in Yemen because of illusion that weapon superiority will lead to military victory. Blaming Iran won&#8217;t end disaster. Accepting our April &#8217;15 proposal to end war and begin talks may.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 attack on Saturday, claimed by Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile\u00a0 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran, saying it &#8220;has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world&#8217;s energy supply&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">&#8220;There is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen,&#8221; Pompeo said \u00a0on Twitter, referring to the\u00a0 Houthis&#8217; claim of responsibility. He did not provide any evidence to support his claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In response, Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry on Sunday called the US allegations &#8220;meaningless&#8221; and said they were meant to justify actions against Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran \u00a0has dismissed accusations by the United States that Tehran was behind\u00a0 drone attacks \u00a0that set ablaze two major Saudi Aramco oil installations, as Saudi Arabia raced to restore operations at the damaged facilities. Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Sunday struck out at United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , tweeted &#8220;US and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}