Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthi rebel movement held rival press conferences as Iran continued to deny any involvement in attacks on the kingdom's oil sites.
Saudi Arabia has officially blamed recent attacks against key oil sites in the kingdom on its top rival, Iran, which has said it was prepared for a potential conflict, though it sought to avoid such an outcome.
Maliki displayed evidence purporting to show that"the direction of the attack came from north to the south" and demonstrated"advanced capability." This he said, suggested it did not originate from Yemen as was claimed by the Houthis, who he argued were"just following the order of the IRGC" in their narrative.
Saudi Defense Ministry spokesperson Colonel Turki bin Saleh al-Malki speaks during a press conference in Riyadh, September 18, following the weekend attacks on Saudi Aramco's facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais. Saudi Arabia said that strikes on its oil infrastructure came from the"north" and were sponsored by Iran, but that the kingdom was still investigating the exact launch site.
Iran, meanwhile, has long dismissed claims that it directly backed the Houthis in their four-year conflict with the Saudi-led coalition. In an official note sent earlier Wednesday to Washington via the Swiss embassy in Tehran, Iranian officials continued to deny their country's involvement in Saturday's attacks and warned any their forces any attack on Iran would be met with an immediate reaction not confined to the source of the strike.
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