city of gyre off its eastern coast the saudi energy minister says 2 of the kingdom's oil tankers were among the targets the alleged incidents come as the u.s. has warned that iran or its proxies could be targeting maritime traffic in the region iran has called for a probe into who is responsible. let's get more on the story with marcus kahn he's a senior fellow at the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin marcus thanks for joining us hi we have heard now from the u.s. and also from a saudi arabia the united arab emirates arab emirates these claims of sabotage what is meant by that to be honest we don't know exactly. how far it is in saudi arabia talk about a severe attack severe damage more on no oil has spilled into the ball to some of the persian persian gulf you know people have been injured but what exactly happened and who's to blame we don't know exactly and i think it's