https://southfront.org/gulf-war-report-houthi-strikes-shut-down-half-of-saudi-arabia-oil-production/
Saudi Arabia continues to suffer consequences of its unsuccessful invasion of Yemen.
On September 14, the Armed Forces of the Houthi government carried out a successful strike on facilities of Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Saudi Aramco in Buqayq and Khurais. In an official statement, a spokesperson for the Houthis, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, said that the attack, dubbed Operation Deterrent Balance 2, was a response to the Saudi aggression.
According to the Houthis, the strike was carried out with ten suicide unmanned aerial vehicles. Both targets are located in more than 1,100km from the Houthi-controlled part of northwestern Yemen. Therefore, they likely used their long-range Samad-3 UAVs in the attack. Later, photos appeared suggesting that the Houthis also used at least one missile, most likely the Qods cruise missile.
The strike caused large fires and disrupted Saudi Arabia’s oil production and export. The attack reportedly impacted 5 million barrels per day of oil production — about half the kingdom’s current output.
On the same day, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran claiming that the Islamic Republic has already conducted about ‘100 attacks’ on Saudi Arabia. Senator Lindsey Graham even sated that the US should carry out military strikes on Iran’s oil facilities.
US President Donald Trump also phoned Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and offered help to the Kingdom in ensuring its security. Trump added that the attack on the Saudi oil facilities could be detrimental to the US and the global economy.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded to the accusations by denouncing them as lies.
The conflict in Yemen became a visual demonstration that a large military budget is not enough to achieve military victories. Saudi Arabia’s supposed “short victorious war” turned into the prolonged conflict, which the Kingdom is apparently loosing. However, Saudi Arabia cannot withdraw its troops from the country and accept a peace deal with the Houthi government because such decision will cause a strong political crisis inside the kingdom and will undermine the weakening positions of the royal house even further.
The more the Houthi strike those targets inside SA the better it is.They need to expand those attacks to the oil loading terminals,and the desalination plants.The more they feel the pain to their economic survival the quicker they will stop their attacks in Yemen. As an added benefit,it just might bring on a coup in SA,and the overthrow of MBS.
No doubt the Houthis have very good reasons to strike, but do we know for a fact that this was an attack by the Houthis?
Or was this a false flag to provide Trump with pretext for war on Iran? Or a false flag to swing the Israeli elections?
PCR thinks it was the Israelis, not the Houthis…
I think the answer here is obvious – it was the Houthis using long-range drones, as stated in the article. Not everything is a false flag operation. It would be difficult for the Israelis to pull off a false flag so deep in SA territory, first of all. Secondly, the Saudis and there US patrons do not have any air defense technology capable of stopping small but deadly stealth drones. For that they would need a Russian AD weapon like the Pantsir. The Patriot missile is just a useless piece of junk in this case. Third, cutting SA’s oil output in half does very real damage to the Hegemon, and it is unlikely they would harm their own allies in this way intentionally.
It is possible that the Houthis may be receiving help from Iranian experts to develop these drones, but that is still a far cry from Iran being responsible for the attacks.
I personally hope that the Houthis keep destroying any and all infrastructure they can target in Saudi Arabia. Washington knows full well Iran is not responsible for these attacks. The brutal war and siege in Yemen needs to come to an immediate end, and if the Houthis need to reduce SA’s oil exports to Zero in order to achieve this, then so be it. Keep the attacks coming! Show the entire world how weak and useless US Air defense systems actually are, and how vulnerable the House of Saud’s house of cards truly is…
I find it hugely amusing that the first thing the Houthi drones destroyed was the Patriot system!
8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
Tom Welsh
I believe the Houthis destroyed the Patriot radar. This must be a huge embarrassment for the US Military Industrial Complex, whose Patriot missile system both failed to detect and destroy incoming drones. Same thing happened in Israel a few years back, when the Israeli military fired three Patriot missiles against one drone, and all three missed. On the other hand, Russian missile systems destroyed every drone that was fired against their Air Force base in Syria.
So the Houthis were able to penetrate Saudi multi million dollar defenses with some cheepo drones? No wonder Turkey opted for the Russian missile defense system over the U.S. Patriot system.
Tulsi Gabbard Sparks Tweetalanche After Accusing Trump of ‘Acting Like Saudi Arabia’s B****’
https://sputniknews.com/us/201909161076818443-tulsi-gabbard-sparks-tweetalanche-after-accusing-trump-of-acting-like-saudi-arabias-b/
“Trump awaits instructions from his Saudi masters. Having our country act as Saudi Arabia’s bitch is not “America First.” https://t.co/kJOCpqwaQS
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) 16 сентября 2019 г.”
The dump may be acting like he’s the saudi’s suka, but he is israel’s suka. He gets his instructions from zionazi, inc.
Exactly! Trump is the Sordid Barbarians’ bitch alright, but the Zionazis get preferential humping rights every time. Of course the Sordids and the Zionazis are two peas from the same rancid pod.
if the Yemenis fired 10 drones and there were more hits and that surplus was meticulously accurate, then it is likely that the Israelis in Saudi Arabia waited and took the opportunity and pushed the matter against Iran a little. it should be seen whether all the hits are equally accurate or there are a group of hits that bounces above average. true, some hits came from the west.
I bet the Saudis are wishing they had bought S-300s and Pantsirs instead of American rubbish.
Tom, what makes you think AZC oil company KSA can just go buy arms in the market? You work for us, you buy from us.
“I owe my soul to the Company store”.
https://youtu.be/eI9ayLlTX-s?t=19
I am curious. Why is it OK for Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s richest nations with the world’s third or fourth largest military budget, to attack wretchedly poor Yemen and murder its citizens for six years – but it is wrong for Yemen to fight back?
Too many people have forgotten what war is. War seems to them a video game they can watch from their comfortable sofas and armchairs, with not the slightest risk to themselves.
WRONG.
War exists as soon as one nation commits a single act of war against another nation. The attacked nation is then fully entitled to fight back, using whatever means it can. If it can obtain nuclear weapons and use them, good for it. If it can obtain powerful drone-launched missiles, good for it.
The Saudis started this. They sowed the wind – let them reap the whirlwind.
And don’t even think of blaming Iran. Even if the weapons used were Iranian – which no one knows – how many people have been murdered in the last 50 years with American and British weapons? Certainly millions.
A most excellent comment. Amazing, is it not, that the presstitute vermin take the side of the Sordid Barbarian regime, Evil incarnate, every time in any dispute with Iran, or Yemen, or Syria, and that of the USA, the greatest force for Evil and genocidal butcher in all history, without hesitation. Indeed they paint the Thanatopian Devil as the epitome of good. If only for our group cognitive dementia, the West has brought its coming destruction upon its own head.
“I am curious. Why is it OK for Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s richest nations with the world’s third or fourth largest military budget, to attack wretchedly poor Yemen and murder its citizens for six years – but it is wrong for Yemen to fight back?”
Only one country in the world has the right to self dense.
Only one country in the world has the right to attack.
You can guess who they are!!!
I completely agree with your comment, jiri.
That said, congratulations on your unintentional coinage, “self dense”. Sounds like Washington, all right! They don’t come any denser.
Nonsense: two countries can do this.
Four days before the Israeli elections.
Lease of life for the american fracking industry.
coincidence or ???
BTW. An UAV can be slow if it is invisible to radar. And dirt cheap if designed with the right materials.
Moscow’s offer to sell Saud S400 in aftermath of recent oil infrastructure destruction is tantamount to an accusation that a stealth tech platform delivered the blows. The S400 is a doomsday weapon. It is not for chasing off drones. It is for taking out stealth vehicles and very high speed objects. If Moscow had offered Panstir missile defence system it would mean Moscow believes the drone narrative. Moscow does not believe in that fairytale.
I think he was mostly being sarcastic and also taking a jab at the US with that statement.
No way human operator guided the objects which struck the facilities of Saud. Confidence for such can be gained with recognition that the refractory vessels were struck at identical locus thereby revealing computerised targeting. Houtis do not deploy missiles with advanced silicon brains. The Saud have many radar and other target acquisition appliances. None apparently saw the attacking objects. So either the appliances were turned off or the appliances can’t see stealth objects.
Putin doesnt speak useless words. What he said though mildly cryptic was never the less clear.
There are stealth platforms under various control stationed in the Middle East. Recent arrivals too. There are also stealth cruise missiles in armories nearby too.
Russia, Putin said, can prevent these kinds of attacks on Saud with use of S400.
And the anonymous hasbara marches on…
Yawn.
I will now go by moniker Wendy if that is deanonymising enough for you Tak old son.?
No newbie this one been here for 6 years.
So here i am Wendy. Wendy Lane. Ok.!
Cool, now I can scroll past the wendy lane hasbara. Thanks.
In other words: US weapons won’t defend against US weapon attacks; but, Russian weapon systems will do the job— count on it.
Better to call Putin a cynic; or better yet, a cold, hard, realist.
All in all, the Saker is again right: let the smoke blow off, wait and see; time will show what the ends are, and therefore the key actors and their designs.
Yemeni vengeance has only just begun. The pigs of the house of Saud are going to be barbecued and fed to dogs.
I’m guessing the Yemen drones are roughly equivalent to the drones the zionazi proxies have been using in Syria to regularly attack the Russian bases there in radar/IR detectability. The Russians knock them down effortlessly, the saudis, using that exceptionally superior, godlike pindo high tech weaponry couldn’t even account for one of the drones. The israeloamericans are in a tough spot here. :-D
Forget about the nonsense the Houthis didn’t do this attack and it is some kind of false flag. Why would the Houthis claim they did it and threaten more attacks if this was a false flag by the freakshow murdering them by the 1000s? This false flag nonsense is deliberate muddying the waters, to sow confusion. Not surprised pcr is flogging this deception, it’s his calling card.
As for the twitter “locked and loaded” faggotry from bibi’s buttboi, dump, it’s to raise oil prices. The usa depends on fracking to generate a surplus, and fracking needs oil up around $70 per barrel to keep fracking profitable. Otherwise, it’s another ponzi scheme. Read a couple articles on this the last week, the u.s. fracking business is peaking and headed down. I’ll post them later if I can find them again.
Will likud buttboi dump attack Iran? Doubtful, congress would probably go for it, but the public? Doubtful, they are war weary, want out of these wars for israel. They want improvements at home. The dump tapped into this war weariness to bamboozle his way into office (or rather his likud handlers and support machine), but people have caught on now it was bs all along. It will take much more than a couple damaged saudi oil facilities. Then again, pindos are down to the level of poles when it comes to short sighted, buggered stupidity, so who knows.
Shorthand recap, the dump reaction to the drone attack is an israeli reaction, mixed with an effort to prop up a slow moving train wreck, which is the fracking ponzi scheme.
Nah man, it is a false flag by unknown perpetrators.
Sorry Vot tak but confirmation bias can limit even the best of us.
Putin was not joking when he implied Saud would require S400 to deal with the threat of such further attacks.
Putin doesn’t offer S400 to swat Houthis missile mosquitos. Think brother.
So what is it? Anonymous or wendy lane?
Not to mention that it isn’t the first time the Houthis have used attack drones and their military branch even had a nice event earlier this year to show off their hardware:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/uae-yemen-troop-withdrawal-houthi-new-drones-missiles/260253/
IOW, vot tak’s analysis seems correct.
‘We are not your prostitutes!’ Tulsi Gabbard slams Trump for ‘pimping out’ US soldiers to Saudi Arabia
https://www.rt.com/usa/468961-tulsi-trump-military-prostitutes-saudis/
“Tulsi Gabbard
✔
@TulsiGabbard
.@realDonaldTrump Despicable. Offering to place our military assets under the command of a foreign country—Saudi Arabia—is a disgrace and betrayal of my patriotic brothers and sisters in uniform and to our Constitution. We are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp.”
Who benefits from such an attack?
*USA, b/c it’s fracking industry needs high prices, & weapons makers like chaos.
*Canada, b/c its oil sands need high prices.
*Russia, b/c it would get extra income.
*UAE, same as Russia
*Yemen, b/c Saudis are mortal enemy.
*Israel, but only if the “Iran guilty” narrative is believed.
Who does NOT benefit?
*Iran, b/c they are already winning the political war against Saudi Arabia, & they’d have world condemnation against them.
*Saudi Arabia, despite having higher prices, has less product to sell, must spend extra money on repairs, & desperately improve its air defences.
*China, b/c it is a net importer.
Who has the capability to conduct such an attack?
*USA
*Russia
*Israel
*Saudi Arabia
*UAE
*UK
*France
*Yemeni Houthis
Deliberately excluded are:
*Iran, b/c its aircraft cannot get into Western Saudi Arabia undetected.
*Canada, b/c it is incapable.
Unlikely to do so:
*Russia, b/c it makes enough money as is, & does not want another war.
*France, b/c it is net oil importer.
*UK, b/c it’s military is stretched too thin.
Out of the 4 countries with both the motive and capability to do so, only one group has openly claimed responsibility. Furthermore, Israel, UAE, & USA have been working to crush the Houthis, so it is unlikely they’d suddenly cooperate with them in a game of subterfuge. Furthermore, Houthis have threatened to increase attacks against Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis are therefore the most logical culprit.
Some other ideas to ponder, maybe . . .
Non-state actors. Or, perhaps better stated: non-aligned, state actors; aka, globalists, et al. The technology supplied by A,B,C; logistics by agent Q,R,S; field operations conducted by the infamous X,Y,Z (and of course, the aftermath to be parsed and quantified by the much loved MSM).
One thing that stands out, in light of recent events like the supposed Iranian missile/torpedo ship attack, is the high fidelity images immediately published—not to mention the carefully crafted arguments: high precision targeting and planning, of which only Iran could carryout; 17 strikes, and not 10 as claimed by the Brigadier General; total psychological paranoia proven by real facts (we saw it!).
Why believe in any of it?—personally I’m at the point to where I don’t think any of it is true, true in the sense of unmanipulated datum.
Oh those ” Houthi ” !
If it was a false flag and the perpetrators turned off the Patriot missile batteries and attacked from south-western Iraq so they can easily blame the pro-Iranian militias ,then we gonna have a war. Most likely the Jewish lobby will favor an attack on Iranian reactors, the Americans said something about Iranian refineries.
If it wasn’t a false flag ,then the war could be postponed cos the US has a ” yuge ” problem.The Iranians ( Houthi ) have hundreds or more of drones that the Patriots can’t see. These drones can destroy oil refineries ,desalinization plants, US military bases in Qatar, UAE,etc in stealth mode,undetected. In this case US and Saudi Arabia must buy Pantsir systems from Russia ( or develop theirs ), I don’t know why Putin hasn’t made the offer yet.
In both cases though, Iran could turn in a new Vietnam kind of war,especially the final moments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BVRhsqHE5M
or into a revenge for the 1980 Afghanistan war.
The meticulously pointing at Iran might be a distraction. It’s even getting boring, they have even be accused for 9-11.
What’s at stake here is the credibility of USA air defences. There is some kind of mentality that ‘the usual suspects’ can bomb people to smithereens without getting hurt themselves. Often I read denegrating opinions about Yemeni’s that they are some kind of ragheads. Apparently they are not, and they have proven various times that they can hit back at the Saudi vulnerabilities. What will be next, port loading facilities? Desalination plants? The red light district in Bahrain on thursday evening to hit a lot of princes?
Admitting that Houthi’s can do this, despite gazillion US$ tech, would be really embarassing for the MIC. So, they blame Iran. Again. This should also be a darn warning what they can expect if they get some hidious idea to retaliate against Iran. Remember that high-tech stealth drone shot out of the sky?
The only way out is to stop this genocidal war on Yemen. Lose face? Maybe, but going on might result in losing more.
Cheers, Rob
“Often I read denegrating opinions about Yemeni’s that they are some kind of ragheads”.
War appears to be God’s way of dispelling some people’s belief in their own superiority.
History is little more than a long list of wars launched in the belief that “it will all be over in a week”, because the “subhumans” selected as victims cannot put up any effective resistance.
In almost every single case, the aggressors got bloody noses. (Even when, technically, they won).
That’s because, especially when it comes to fighting, all humans are roughly equal. But those who are fighting to defend their families and their homes tend to fight a lot harder – and, if necessary, dirtier.
‘Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods”‘.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay , “Lays of Ancient Rome”
Very much so. U.S. military defenses have already lost their credibility. Just like with the downing of the U.S. high value drone a little while back, the only reason U.S./Saudi/etc. forces have not responded by now is because they can’t, and everyone knows it.
I see Iran is showing Trump the “art of the deal.”
Iran rejects Pompeo’s ‘lies’ about Yemeni drone raids on Saudi oil sites
September 15, 2019
Tehran has dismissed the US’s claim of Iranian involvement in the recent Yemeni drone attacks on
Saudi oil facilities, saying Washington seems to be shifting from a failed campaign of “maximum
pressure” to one of “maximum lying” and “deceit” against the Islamic Republic.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/09/15/606234/Iran-Abbas-Mousavi-Yemen-Mike-Pompeo
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US in delusional denial of Yemen’s military power: Analyst
September 17, 2019
A political analyst says the United States is in “delusional denial” of Yemen’s military power after
Washington sought to pin the blame for the recent Yemeni army raids on Saudi Arabia’s key oil
facilities on Iran.Syed
Syed Mohsin Abbas, commentator and journalist from London, told Press TV’s The Debate program
on Monday that the Americans have done “nothing” to de-escalate the Saudi war on Yemen and have
rather “exacerbated” it.
“They [Americans] want the war there. They want the Saudis to actually destroy Yemen and have no
concern for the democratic rights of the Yemeni people,” the analyst said.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/09/17/606396/Yemen-Saudi-Arabia-US-Iran
In my opinion, Israel did it (like the attack on USS Liberty in 1967)
Azorka
The images commonly presented show the tank penetrations in the lower left quadrant and thus it appears the attack came from the southwest.
The images are rotated 70 degrees CCW; north is to the left. The missiles came from the west.
Motto: A new fairy tail ” The sleeping Patriots ” ,what a beauty !
” Saudi and US investigators have determined “with very high probability” that the September 14 attack on the Saudi oil industry was launched from an Iranian base in Iran close to the border with Iraq, CNN claimed on September 17 citing “a source familiar with the investigation.”
“The attack involved cruise missiles flying at low altitude.The missiles, according to the investigators’ current assessment, flew over southern Iraq and through Kuwaiti airspace before reaching their targets. The trajectory would imply that the launch point of the attack was being masked.”
https://southfront.org/very-high-probability-u-s-saudi-arabia-claim-strikes-on-saudi-aramco-facilities-were-delivered-from-iran/
So the swarm of Iranian missiles flew through Kuwaiti airspace where there are 5 US military bases,over the land of Sleeping Patriots and the smoking Gun, then entered the space and land of another Sleeping Patriots and took advantage wreaking havoc.
Not only the Iranian drones are invincible,but also the missiles. NATO should ask for an emergency meeting,even Russia and China could save huge money with the hypersonic missiles program.
And if it is hard to believe in fairy tails,then we have to move ” the launch point of the attack which was being masked ” close to the border with …Iran.
PS. I hope the Houthi’s don’t get infuriated and knock down the other half of oil production.!
Related.
Ignorant Iran ‘experts’ just the beginning of Washington’s foreign policy troubles
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/468959-iran-experts-incompetent-washington/
“An explosive essay calling out the lack of legitimate expertise about Iran ought to be a wake-up call for the US foreign policy field. Yet the same problem also affects Washington’s analysis of Russia, China and many other places.
Imagine a field of study in which less than a third of the experts had related doctorates, half of them could not read, speak or write the language required, and just as many have never set foot inside the relevant country. Preposterous, you might say – yet scientific observation has shown that this is precisely what the US expertise on Iran looks like, according to an essay by political anthropologist Negar Razavi, recently published in the journal Jadaliyya.
Razavi describes the think-tank culture of DC as “a wider system of knowledge production in Washington – one which has consistently rewarded ungrounded, ideologically driven assessments of the Islamic Republic at the expense of qualified, in-depth, and evidence-based analysis.”
If this sounds familiar, that’s because the problem is not limited to Iran. Though Razavi focused exclusively on the state of Iran expertise, her assessment applies in equal measure to the self-styled experts on Venezuela, or Russia, or China, or the Balkans…
The examples are legion. Razavi herself mentions (though not by name) “Heshmat Alavi,” a supposed expert on Iran who recently turned out to be a construct – an online persona operated by the Iranian exile group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK). This is an outfit that seeks regime change in Tehran, and has been endorsed by former National Security Advisor John Bolton and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Gordon Chang, who predicted the “coming collapse of China” in a 2001 book, has been embraced by CNN and Fox News alike as an expert on Beijing – despite the obvious failure of his prediction to actually materialize. Likewise, Swedish economic Anders Aslund has heralded the demise of Russia since 2000 – and cashed in his “expertise” with the Atlantic Council and the governments of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and the Baltic states.”
This sort of pindo incompetence, based upon right wing ideology and idol worship goes way back and infects most, if not all of american bureaucracy. Ralph McGehee described the same failures in the cia 1950s “intelligence” work about China. The fraudulent analysis gets mixed in with the legit and the result is nonsense. It worked in the past, sort of, because the usa had the military/economic power to force the issue, regardless. Those times have largely ended now, but the exceptionalist thinking behind it hasn’t caught up with reality yet.
Koenig talking about the real impact of the Houthi drone attack on oil supply.
Impact on Yemeni Attack on Saudi ARAMCO Oil Facilities
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/impact-on-yemeni-attack-on-saudi-aramco-oil-facilities/
Iran issues sober warning to US: Action will be met with counteraction
September 18, 2019
Iran has warned the United States via Switzerland that any action taken against the country over the
false accusation that Tehran was behind the recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities will be met
with an immediate response.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/09/18/606495/Iran-Saudi-Arabia-oil-attack-US-Swiss-Embassy