{"id":49044,"date":"2019-10-20T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49044"},"modified":"2019-10-20T10:18:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:18:02","slug":"major-blaze-at-iran-oil-refinery-raises-suspicions-of-saudi-revenge-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49044","title":{"rendered":"Major Blaze At Iran Oil Refinery Raises Suspicions Of Saudi Revenge Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/major-blaze-iran-oil-refinery-raises-suspicions-saudi-revenge-attack\">Major Blaze At Iran Oil Refinery Raises Suspicions Of Saudi Revenge Attack<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A section of&nbsp;<strong>Iran\u2019s sprawling Abadan oil refinery in the southwest of the country went up in flames Saturday<\/strong>, and state media sources reported the emergency was under control as of&nbsp;Sunday morning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State media is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/iran-refinery-fire\/fire-in-waste-canal-at-irans-abadan-refinery-under-control-state-media-idUSD5N23U06I\">describing it<\/a>\u00a0as<strong>\u00a0&#8220;a\u00a0fire in a canal carrying waste from Iran\u2019s Abadan oil refinery,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0Iranian official broadcaster IRIB saying, \u201cThe refinery\u2019s fire department contained the fire and prevented it from spreading to other units.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tasnimnews_EN\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/781061170212069376\/lcisLrMG_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tasnimnews_EN\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tasnimnews_EN\/status\/1185840828037681153\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash\">#BREAKING<\/a> <br>A fire in a canal carrying waste from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Abadan?src=hash\">#Abadan<\/a> oil refinery was brought under control on Sunday: State Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, given the extent of the blaze captured in social media circulating videos, and especially given&nbsp;<strong>it comes after a tense summer of attacks on tanker and refineries&nbsp;<\/strong><em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>notably the Sept. 14 Saudi Aramco drone and missile attack&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>the newest Iran facility fire raises serious question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Could the clearly massive&nbsp;Abadan blaze, which&nbsp;Iranian state sources appear ready&nbsp;to downplay, be the result of a Saudi revenge attack?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though unverified and unconfirmed, Iranian opposition sources are pointing to a potential cyber attack as a possible cause for the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Blaze At Iran Oil Refinery Raises Suspicions Of Saudi Revenge Attack A section of&nbsp;Iran\u2019s sprawling Abadan oil refinery in the southwest of the country went up in flames Saturday, and state media sources reported the emergency was under control as of&nbsp;Sunday morning.&nbsp; State media is\u00a0describing it\u00a0as\u00a0&#8220;a\u00a0fire in a canal carrying waste from Iran\u2019s Abadan [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[27394,441,27393,701],"class_list":["post-49044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-abadan-oil-refinery","tag-iran","tag-oil-producton","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49044","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=49044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49045,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49044\/revisions\/49045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}