Smoke from an Aramco oil plant in Abqaiq after attacks.
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Missiles used in the attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities, for which Yemen’s Tehran – backed Houthi group claimed responsibility, were made in Iran, a Saudi minister said.
“All the missiles and drones that have come to Saudi Arabia are manufactured by Iran or supplied by Iran,” Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said in a statement. interview with Arab News published Friday afternoon. ‘Several of them, as we have said, come from the north; there are several coming from the sea. ”
The Houthis said earlier on Friday they had hit an Aramco refinery in the Saudi capital using six bomb-laden drones. The state news agency said the attack, which took place at 6:05 a.m. local time, caused a fire that was later controlled without having an impact on oil supplies or derivatives.
Read: Saudi Arabia promises to protect oil facilities after drone strike
This month, Saudi Arabia intercepts an avalanche of drones aimed at its oil infrastructure. The development pushed the oil price above $ 70 a barrel for the first time since January 2020.
Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia rarely claim lives or inflict major damage, but their frequency has increased in recent months, causing discomfort in the Gulf, a region that is key to global oil production and transit.
Al-Jubeir also said that Saudi Arabia’s position on normalization with Israel was still subject to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia may be heading for normalizing gangs.