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The Saudi ambassador to the United Nations, Abdullah Al-Muallami, confirmed in a letter to the UN Security Council that the Iranian-backed Houthi militia was found to be responsible for the “terrorist” attack, according to Reuters.
Reuters said Saudi Arabia promised in the message that it will spare no effort to protect its lands and citizens, and urged the Security Council to stop the threat to “global energy security.”
The pro-Iranian Houthi militia attacked with a missile a distribution station for petroleum products belonging to Aramco in the north of Jeddah, in the west of the kingdom.
The attack resulted in a fuel tank fire, causing no casualties or affecting company supplies.
An official source from the Saudi Ministry of Energy said in a statement: “An explosion occurred causing a fire in a fuel tank at the petroleum products distribution station in northern Jeddah as a result of a terrorist attack with a projectile.” .
The spokesman for the coalition forces to support legitimacy in Yemen, Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, confirmed the involvement of the Houthi terrorist militia in the attack on the station.
He claimed that this terrorist attack constitutes an extension of the terrorist acts against the oil facilities in (Abqaiq and Khurais), which were adopted by the Houthi militia, and the evidence and evidence demonstrated the Iranian regime’s involvement in those terrorist attacks using weapons of specific Iranian-made cruisers and booby-trapped drones.