Live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im George Howell. Cnn newsroom starts right now. The Global Economy runs on oil. And right now oil could be running short. Attacks on two Saudi Oil Facilities shocked the Kingdoms Energy sector on saturday. Its not clear yet who is responsible. The United States, though, accuses iran. A u. S. Source with knowledge of the incident says the attack may have been launched from inside iraq. Heres more of what we know. Iranbacked houthi militants in yemen have claimed responsibility. They used 10 drones to carry out the strikes. U. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo rejects that and says there is no evidence the strikes came from yemen. On twitter he said that iran is responsible but offered no evidence. Irans Foreign Ministry is dismissing the allegations altogether. Regardless of who is responsible, the attacks have crippled saudi oil production. The kingdoms capac
United states and around the world. Cnn newsroom starts right now. 4 00 a. M. Heren the osu east coast. Washington, d. C. Is pointing the finger at iran for attacks that knocked out half of saudi arabias oil capacity. Heres what happened. Iranian Houthi Rebels fighting a war in yemen say they hit two Oil Facilities with drones. But a u. S. Source with knowledge of the incident tells cnn there are signs the attacks came from inside iraq. The wall street journal reporting officials are looking at whether cruise missiles fired from iraq were used instead. The u. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo holds iran responsible tweeting this. Tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on saudi arabia while president rouhani and foreign minister zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy. Amid all the calls for deescalation, iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the Worlds Energy supply. Washington has provided no evidence to back pompeos claim. Irans semiofficial news agency is rejecting it. Thats ge
Regime if their blockade continues. Joining me now is ben. These are a use technological feet, h feat. How is the rest of the world respor reing . We heard widespread condemnation from other countries. The United States and others, at this attack, which really is a significant blow to the saudi oil industry. According to sources familiar with Oil Operations in saudi arab arabia, this is basically mooif Million Barrels of oil per day. That is a huge blow to the oil industry. Theyre hoping to get things back in operation as soon as possible, but youre talking about, according to a sense source in saudi arabia, they are the largest oil stable gags blant in a the world. So this is a massive escalation in terms of attention. And they are supported in my ways by iran. Yemen is a proky war. And as you mentioned, the war there has been going on since march of 2015. The saa saudis have killed mill of civilians. All right, thank you so much. Lets talk more about this with a Cnn National Security
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