{"id":48471,"date":"2019-09-15T09:27:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48471"},"modified":"2019-09-15T09:27:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:27:15","slug":"were-ready-for-full-fledged-war-iran-responds-to-us-accusation-it-launched-saudi-oil-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48471","title":{"rendered":"We’re Ready For “Full-Fledged” War: Iran Responds To US Accusation It Launched Saudi Oil Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’re Ready For “Full-Fledged” War: Iran Responds To US Accusation It Launched Saudi Oil Attack<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After the United States was quick to point the finger at Iran for the early Saturday explosions that rocked<\/a> Abqaiq facility and the Khurais field \u2014 <\/em>forcing production to be shut and with it 5.7 million barrels a day of oil production lost<\/strong> \u2014 <\/em>Iran has warned it stands ready for a “full-fledged” war<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi slammed Washington for a “maximum pressure” strategy that has turned to “maximum lies,” saying that\u00a0because of the former’s “failure [the US] is leaning toward maximum lies”. FM Javad Zarif also said these were a continuation of efforts to pressure and shame into compliance under US hegemony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screengrab from video showing fires raging at\u00a0Abqaiq facility on Saturday.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Iran denied the accusations, which followed photos circulating online which\u00a0appeared to show cruise missile debris scattered in the Saudi desert<\/strong>\u00a0outside the incapacitated oil facilities. Yemen’s Houthi forces had claimed responsibility, saying it deployed ten drones in the successful targeting of the facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And separately an IRGC commander is reported to have reaffirmed<\/a> that American military bases and aircraft carriers are crucially up to 2,000km around Iran and thus “within range” of Iranian missiles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The senior commander, Amirali Hajizadeh, said his country stands ready for a “full-fledged” war but he stopped short of directly mentioning the attacks. As quoted in regional and state media<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, the commander of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, was quoted by the semi-official Tasnim news agency as saying: \u201cEverybody should know that all American bases and their aircraft carriers in a distance of up to 2,000 kilometers around Iran are within the range of our missiles,\u201d <\/strong>according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>

\u201cIran has always been ready for a \u2018full-fledged\u2019 war,\u201d<\/strong> Hajizadeh added, without directly mentioning the attacks in Saudi Arabia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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We’re Ready For “Full-Fledged” War: Iran Responds To US Accusation It Launched Saudi Oil Attack After the United States was quick to point the finger at Iran for the early Saturday explosions that rocked Abqaiq facility and the Khurais field \u2014 forcing production to be shut and with it 5.7 million barrels a day of oil production lost \u2014 Iran has warned it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1007,441,25708,701,827,862,865,901],"class_list":["post-48471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-drones","tag-iran","tag-javad-zarif","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48472,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48471\/revisions\/48472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}