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Debkafiles – March 9, 2021<\/p>\n
US goodwill gestures and warning signals have clearly lost their punch for Iran \u2013 even when backed by the mighty US B-52 bombers flying over their heads. After dozens of attacks on Saudi Arabia in recent weeks, Iran-backed Yemeni Houthi rebels outdid themselves on Sunday, March 8 by sending 14 armed drones and 8 ballistic missiles flying toward the Saudi petrol tank farm at Ras Tanura, one of the largest oil shipping ports in the world, and the residential area of Dharan that houses foreign oil workers, including Americans. \u00a0A gag order from Riyadh concealed the scale of injuries and damage. (See attached picture.)<\/p>\n
On the same day, two heavy nuclear-capable US B-52 Stratofortress bombers made a round trip to the Gulf and back to home base, escorted through the skies of the region by British, Israel, Saudi and Qatari warplanes. This was the heavy bomber\u2019s seventh mission over the Gulf and the second since Joe Biden took office as president.<\/p>\n
In sharp contrast to actions set in motion from Tehran, America\u2019s answer to the Yemeni attack on Saudi Arabia scarcely resonated. State Department spokesman Ned Price called it \u201cunacceptable and dangerous, and put civilians at risk, including Americans.\u201d He added, \u201cThey need to stop attacking and start negotiating.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Iran\u2019s Yemeni proxy was clearly on the march even after the Biden administration made the gesture of lifting the terror designation and halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
The template for America\u2019s non-response to devastating Iranian-instigated attacks on Saudi Arabia was set in September, 2019, when the Saudis\u2019 main oilfields at Abqaig and Khurais were hit squarely and precisely by the same mix of drones and ballistic missiles. The attack, which cut Saudi oil production by half, was launched jointly by Yemeni Houthis in the south and pro-Iranian Iraqi Shiite militias from the north.<\/p>\n
Not content with instigating a major assault on Saudi Arabia, Iranian officials also on Sunday had strong words for Israel too. Defense Minister Amir Hatami threatened to raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground if Israel conducted a pre-emptive attack on Iran. Since this threat has become a constant, Hatami reinforced it by saying that, this time, he had orders from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to translate those words into an active operation.<\/p>\n
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