{"id":12978,"date":"2019-10-02T15:44:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=12978"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:44:53","slug":"iran-attacked-oil-facilities-saudi-arabia-maryam-rajavi-ncri-mek-pmoi-ashraf3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/10\/iran-attacked-oil-facilities-saudi-arabia-maryam-rajavi-ncri-mek-pmoi-ashraf3\/12978\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Iran attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"--><html><body><p>Why Iran attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>By: Ali Latifi <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia in a series of devastating drone strikes in September. A total of 25 missiles and drones were dropped on the Abqaiq Aramco and Khurais oil plants in a targeted attack on Saudi facilities. The Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen previously claimed responsibility for the launch, which sent the price of oil soaring. But Iran\u2019s main opposition group <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/peoples-mojahedin-pmoi-mek-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"National Council of Resistance of Iran (opens in a new tab)\">National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (NCRI) revealed new intelligence on Monday detailing how\u00a0Tehran\u00a0was directly behind the recent attacks on the Saudi facilities. NCRI\u2019s intel also showed the attack was directly ordered by none other than Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-iran-freedom\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/09\/30\/ncri-us-irans-missile-attack-saudi-oil-facilities-mek\/\n<\/div><figcaption> Iran attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/09\/30\/ncri-us-irans-missile-attack-saudi-oil-facilities-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NCRI\u2019s report (opens in a new tab)\">NCRI\u2019s report<\/a> Khamenei ordered the attack at a July 31 meeting of the Supreme National Security Council. Regime president Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif were both present at the SNSC session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The information was obtained by the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/peoples-mojahedin-pmoi-mek-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PMOI\/MEK (opens in a new tab)\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a>), which has sources from within the ranks of the regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"IRGC (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/04\/12\/irgc-maryam-rajavi-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\">IRGC<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. administration of Donald Trump, which has imposed\nwaves of sanctions after pulling out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal last year,\nannounced after Iran attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia\u00a0that it would\nsanction Iran\u2019s Central Bank in response to the aggression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regime is hopelessly trying to prevent a popular\nuprising and thwart the expansion of resistance units by using internal\nsuppression and external sponsorship of terrorism. It seeks to contain the\ndeep-seated anger of the society at its disastrous and inhuman rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is quite telling that according to numerous reports from\ninside the IRGC, all IRGC forces\u00a0were on full alert during\u00a0 and after\nIran attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. IRGC\u00a0units implemented\nsuppressive maneuvers to intimidate Iranians in various cities and to fend off\nthe possible threat of protests and uprisings as their chain of command were\nfast busy planning and implementing the attack against the Saudi oil\nfacilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NCRI  (opens in a new tab)\">NCRI <\/a>warned that the regime is counting on inaction of the international community toward its aggressions. As long as this regime exists, it will not cease these hostile activities. The lasting solution for ending religious fascism as the source of all the crises in the Middle East is for the Iranian people to change this illegitimate regime with their popular uprising and with Iran\u2019s organized resistance movement, the NCRI noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/biography\" target=\"_blank\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"described Iran\u2019s attack (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/item\/maryam-rajavi-attacking-oil-installations-iran-neighboring-county-warmongering\" target=\"_blank\">described Iran\u2019s attack<\/a> against oil facilities in Saudi Arabia a major step and a new phase in the warmongering aggressions of the religious dictatorship ruling Iran, adding that exerting power and decisiveness is the only language the mullahs understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inaction only emboldens this medieval regime, whose primary victims are the\u00a0Iranian people, she noted, emphasizing that the ultimate solution to rid the world of Iran\u2019s ruling religious fascism as the source of all crises in the region is a change of this illegitimate regime.  Mrs. Rajavi made the following recommendations:<br> \u2013 Previous United Nations Security Council resolutions on the mullahs\u2019 nuclear weapons project and the ban on enrichment must be reinstated.<br> \u2013 Eviction of the regime, its Revolutionary Guards and mercenary militias from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Afghanistan is an urgent imperative.<br> \u2013 The European Union must place Khamenei, his offices, the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence on the terrorist watch list.<br> \u2013 The UN Security Council must refer the clerical regime\u2019s dossier on human rights abuses and atrocities, especially the 1<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/story-of-1988-massacre-in-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners (opens in a new tab)\">988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners<\/a> to an international court.<br> \u2013 The world community must recognize the right of the Iranian people\u2019s Resistance to overthrow the ruling theocracy and attain freedom <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Iran attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia By: Ali Latifi Iran attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia in a series of devastating drone strikes in September. A total of 25 missiles and drones were dropped on the Abqaiq Aramco and Khurais oil plants in a targeted attack on Saudi facilities. 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