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Cruise missiles that struck Saudi Aramco last year were of Iranian origin: UN
2020-06-13
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Secretary-General of the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
, António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
, told the Security Council in a report on Thursday that the cruise missiles that struck two oil facilities and an international airport in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
last year were of Iranian origin.Guterres said in the report that several of the weapons and related materials that the United States seized in November 2019 and February 2020 were "of Iranian origin" as well, according to Rooters.

Guterres continued that the design features of some of them were similar to those produced by a commercial entity in Iran, or bearing Persian marks, and that some were transferred from the Islamic Theocratic Republic between February 2016 and April 2018.

He stated that "these pieces may have been transferred in a manner inconsistent with" the 2015 Security Council resolution stipulating the agreement between Tehran and world powers to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.

The Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York did not respond to a request for comment on the UN report.

The attacks of Saudi Aramco facilities took place last year on the Abqaiq and Khurais facilities in the eastern region of the Kingdom.

The facilities were targeted by the Ansarallah forces, which used drones and cruise missiles in their wide-scale attack.

It is noteworthy to mention that the U.S. Navy announced last February that it had "confiscated 150 illegal missiles on a ship in the Arabian Sea."

The U.S. Navy added that "the components of the confiscated missiles in the Arabian Sea are Iranian designed," noting that "the weapons confiscated in the Arabian Sea include 3 Iranian (surface-to-air) missiles."



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