Yemen’s Iran-backed Manageable says it struck Saudi petroleum facilities in Jeddah with missiles yesterday, just as Saudi Arabia prepares to carry a motor race on Sunday. The missiles caused fires in two storage tanks, however there have been no casualties. A Houthi spokesman says they targeted ‘vital facilities’. Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil exporter.
Saudi’s vitality ministry stated the kingdom strongly condemned the “sabotage attacks”, stressing that it’s by no means accountable if the global oil supply suffers from the attacks. The Houthis have recently upped assaults in opposition to Saudi Arabia, and Saudi state media earlier mentioned the coalition had foiled a line of Houthi drone and rocket attacks. Saudi air defences additionally destroyed a ballistic missile launched towards Jizan, which triggered a “limited” fireplace at an electricity distribution plant.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the attacks on ally Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the UN works to find a temporary truce between the two nations before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts in April.
Saudi Arabia has been combating with the Iran-backed Houthis since they seized management of Yemen in 2015. While Saudi Arabia is a Sunni-majority country, Iran is a Shia-majority country, and its proxy teams abroad such as the Houthis are Shias..g