{"id":11414,"date":"2017-11-12T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11414"},"modified":"2017-11-12T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:33:10","slug":"us-general-points-finger-at-iran-over-yemeni-missile-fired-against-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/us-general-points-finger-at-iran-over-yemeni-missile-fired-against-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"US general points finger at Iran over Yemeni missile fired against Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A top US Air Force official in the Middle East is pointing the finger at Iran over a retaliatory missile fired from Yemen against the Saudi capital Riyadh during a war launched by the monarchy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigian claimed Friday that the missile, launched by the Yemeni army early on November 5, was manufactured by Iran, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Similar allegations made in the aftermath of the strike were rejected by the chief commander of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as well as Iran&#8217;s Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been Iranian markings on those missiles,\u201d Harrigian claimed at a news conference in Dubai ahead of the Dubai Air Show without elaborating or offering evidence. \u201cTo me, that connects the dots to Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2017\/11\/10\/541705\/Iran-Saudi-Arabia-Foreign-Minister-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif-Twitter-Saddam-Hussein-Taliban-Daesh\">\n<div class=\"oembed\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/media.presstv.com\/photo\/20171110\/c50c662e-50fa-4ffb-9774-e8f4da590926.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-Iran warns against &#8216;stoking more crises&#8217; in Mideast<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Iranian foreign minister warns of the consequences of &#8216;the stoking of more crises&#8217; in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Ministry of Culture and Information has reportedly provided the AP with pictures allegedly showing parts of the missile, a Borkan H2, launched at the King Khalid international airport, located 35 kilometers north of Riyadh.<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia confirmed the launch, saying that its air defense intercepted the missile and brought it down to the north of the airport.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2017\/11\/05\/541023\/yemen-missile-ballistic-riyadh-long-range\">\n<div class=\"oembed\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/media.presstv.com\/photo\/20171105\/3a849deb-34ab-497e-b3dc-a4ab19d0aec1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-Riyadh airport hit with Borkan H2 missile: Yemen<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s army has confirmed that it targeted Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Khalid international airport with a long distance Borkan H2 missile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s Ansarullah movement has been on the forefront of fighting against aggression by the Saudi and their allies since 2015. The Houthi forces have launched a number of long-range missiles across the border in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia\u2019s war machine enjoys missiles built by the US and the UK to incessantly bombard residential areas in the most impoverished Arab country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top US Air Force official in the Middle East is pointing the finger at Iran over a retaliatory missile fired from Yemen against the Saudi capital Riyadh during a war launched by the monarchy. Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigian claimed Friday that the missile, launched by the Yemeni army early on November 5, was manufactured &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11460,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions\/11460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}