An unidentified state actor has been blamed for attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf last month, according to an inconclusive inquiry that stopped short of explicitly pointing the finger at Iran. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Part of the damaged Saudi-owned oil tanker Amjad off the coast of Fujairah in the UAE. “We believe the responsibility for this attack lies on the shoulders of Iran,” Saudi Arabia’s UN ambassador, Abdallah al-Mouallimi, said after the briefing. Germany remains a signatory to the nuclear deal signed in 2015 from which Donald Trump withdrew in May 2018. Speaking at a conference in Bratislava, Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s foreign affairs minister, said the Iran nuclear deal had not delivered “a peaceful and normal Iran”.

Source: The Guardian June 07, 2019 08:12 UTC