A ballistic missile targeting Saudi Arabia recently fired by Yemeni rebels was manufactured by Iran, the top US Air Force official in the Mideast said Friday, supporting earlier allegations from Saudi officials.
“There have been Iranian markings on those missiles” AP reported the official, Lt Gen Jeffrey L Harringian, as telling Journalists in Dubai. He added, “to me, that connects the dots to Iran.
This missile was intercepted on Nov. 4 near Riyadh’s international airport, according to Saudi Arabia, marking the deepest yet intrusion of such a projectile into Saudi territory. The Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry reportedly said that investigators found evidence proving “the role of Iranian regime in manufacturing them.”
The firing of the missile, which was attributed to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, came hours after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri’s surprise announcement last Saturday that he would step down, and just hours before dozens of princes and former ministers were arrested in Saudi Arabia.
It is “not a stretch to believe that Tehran is supporting the Houthi missile program with technical advice and specialized components,” Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy was quoted by AP as writing. “After all, the Houthis have rapidly fielded three major new missile systems in less than two years while under wartime conditions and international blockade.”
The firing of missile by Houthi Yemeni rebels was clearly unIslamic and a terroristic act against the civilian population in Saudi Arabia. Why targeted the Riyadh Airport where civilians passengers of different nationalities were everywhere. They could have point their missile at military camp of Saudi Armed Forces.
The American CIA should stop insinuating Saudi Arabia to make war with Iran. Missile made in Iran? and so what??? The US missiles, guns, bombs, tanks have been killing civilians everywhere in different parts of the world. The American gov’t are selling their war killing machines to different countries and rebels and terrorist group as well. They are also supplying war equipments to ISIS in middle east.
The Saudi govt should NOT be infuenced by the satanic act and Fitna of American CIA to make war with Iran.
Like every apartheid colonial state was given an M16, F16, and the blessings from the evil blue hexigon, yeah give them any more protein and growth hormones (colonial genocide) they just grow horns and prove that Malcolm X was on point, who cares about capitalist and Communist if the Devil can still ruin both.
So next week ten long distance missiles are sent from Yemen towards Iranian infrastructure. Then SA says "What? We didn’t do anything. Must be the local government angry about Iran support…" 🙂
Aborder manipulation from the West aim at harming Islam through destroying all muslim strong countries. This is part of an long time prepared strategy to deter the countries called "Axis of Evil" by Pr Bush. Iran, Irak, Syria, Yémen, even Saudi Arabia. The strategy after failing to find a strategy to invade some of them has become to put them one against another in destructive conflits intelligently created by the West as a hole. All the causes will be prepared and conducted by the west helped by Israël which suppositly understands the Aeab world. This recent missile, the gas bomb in Syrie, Isis and Daesh are all the West’s
manipulation. France le doing the same in the Sahel. Informing and arming both sides. Laying landmines and accusing the islamists.
All those crimes for the sole objective to garantee access to oil and richessnesses in those areas. I dont know if the Arabs have stratégists who seat and analyse the world geopolitically. And finally have they forgotten that they are muslims put to kill their muslim brothers. Iblis had promissed to win this battle and some people are helping him now. Allah SWT will judge all of us.
US wants Arabs to fight so that they can supply weapons as they get oil cheaply.
Michael Collins Negroe Snr. Hire the philippine army. Philippine army take down ISIS in just 5 months even lack in equipment and technology.
It’s not only in the ME bro, shit has been happening time and again the world over, actually immediately after the end of the 2nd World War. The kind of atrocities these Americans caused to the North Koreans from 1951-1953 has been with those people till today. If you see North Korean leadership being this unapologetic and relentless till they’ve acquired the nukes then you’ll know that they’re acting from an experience point of life. We do not want to revisit and ask how many people were killed in the Vietnam war or how the American soldiers who died in that war can be said to have been doing an act of patriotism in another country going through external shit and trying to sort it themselves only to be attacked by the ‘moralists’.
Saudi deserves it for its agression on Yemen.
And how many weapons that killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed cities in the ME has the markings of the US?
Jeff Soja just like I said in my comment above yours, propaganda is a powerful weapon and you play it perfectly then you’ll be victorious. Besides it’s easier to breach a Saudi airspace than it’s to Iran’s despite the former boasting of ‘superior’ American technology.
Michael Collins Negroe Snr what Saudi Arabia isn’t realising that attacking other countries is one way of bringing war at home. The fact that that missile managed to enter their territory means that they are vulnarable
But Saudi Arabia isn’t Saudi Arabia without the American support and protection. You think the Saudis would have been left behind during the recent Arabic Uprisings witnessed a few years ago? They wouldn’t have but because the country has been stockpiling every recent American military technology more so for the purpose of show than effectively use them to win any military contest. I hear they want to take on Lebanon and more so the Hezbollah network. Question is can they? They have been unable to defeat a novice rebel group in Yemen’s Houthis, so can they crack it against an organized and experienced organization like the Hezbollah? That’s a Nah! Besides how will they access the Lebanon territory considering they failed to oust Al Assad in Syria and aren’t in good terms with Israel or Iran, how would they access the Hezbollah hideouts in Lebanon? Use the International waters and access the country through the Mediterranean sea or what exactly?
Its just a US strategy of causing instability in the middle east both to provide a market for its weapons and Maine Israel stronger. It is a shame that Saudi Arabia is blindly dancing by the tune
Sun Tzu must have been a genius. In his book, ‘Art of War’, he did mention propaganda as an important psychological weapon in such times and I can candidly say that this is very much in play.
They asked legitimate questions to which they were given legitimate answers, but they went ahead to write different stories. Irritating, won’t you say?
True. Visualpolitik’s YouTube channel explains the Saudi shortcomings in Yemen well
Translation: It was a U.S. missile.
ideas to start war