Saudi Arabia has accused the Iranian regime of being behind drone strikes against its oil industry

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accused Iran of Thursday of be behind the UAVs attack by Yemeni rebels against two pumping stations in an oil pipeline in the Riyadh region, amidst a wave of tension in the Persian Gulf after an alleged attempt to sabotage oil tankers and while the escalation continues between Washington and Tehran.

The Deputy Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia, Khaled bin Salman, son of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, he was the first to accuse the Iranian regime, according to the agency AFP.

"The attack of the Houthi militia against two Aramco pumping stations proves that These militias are a simple instrument used by the Iranian regime to implement its program of expansion in the region and not to protect the people of Yemen. as the Houthis wrongly claim, "said Prince Jaled on Twitter.

In another tweet, Khaled, who is vice minister in the ministry headed by his brother and heir to the throne, Mohammed bin Salmansaid theseterrorist acts "were" ordered by the Teheran regime and executed by the Houthiss ".

For his part, Adel al Jubeir, Saudi Foreign Minister, said in a tweet that the "The Houthis are an invisible part of the Guardians of the Iranian Revolution and act under their orders," as evidenced by the attack on Saudi oil installations.

On Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition intervenes in Yemen several bombings against Houthi targets, particularly in Sanaa, the capital, where at least six people died.

Iran-backed rebel group spokesman Mohammed Abdusalam said on his Twitter account that the attacks had been perpetrated "response to the perpetrators who continue to commit crimes of genocide and impose a siege on the Yemeni people". While the President of the Supreme Committee of the Yemeni Revolution, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, badured of dialogue with the BBC On Thursday, the drones were locally made and the attack had nothing to do with Iran, but with the "defense" against Saudi Arabia.

As the Houthis rose up against the Yemeni government in 2015, quickly taking the capital Sanaa, and since then, the country, which shares a vast southern border with Saudi Arabia, has been living a bloody civil war that has generated an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in its population, the poorest in the Arab world.

Almost from the beginning, they received help from the Iranian regime, He sends them weapons (between these ballistic missiles and drones) and funds in order to weaken his rival, Saudi Arabia. While the government of the Yemeni President is supported by athe Arab military coalition led by Riyadh and repeatedly accused of causing the death of the civilian population during aerial bombardments.

Attacks on the pumping stations took place a day after Riad reported the sabotage of two of his freighters in the Persian Gulf, in a context of escalating tensions between his ally the United States and Iran. It is not clear who was responsible for these acts.

The Persian Gulf region is located convulsed precisely by this recent escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran, which includes the deployment of warships and other US military units and threats of closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran.