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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Iran-aligned Houthis claim they attacked oil refinery in Saudi Arabia

Satellite image shows smoke rising from Saudi oil facility in Jazan after attack
A satellite image shows trail of smoke rising from Aramco’s Jazan refinery in south-west Saudi Arabia. Photograph: European Union/Copernicus Sentinel-2/Reuters

Yemen’s Tehran-aligned Houthis have claimed responsibility for an attack on a refinery in Saudi Arabia, two days after the kingdom signed ⁠a defence pact with Turkey ⁠and Pakistan in response to ​growing regional instability caused by the US-Israel war on Iran.

The attack early on Sunday came after Iran said tough new demands would have to be met before it would reopen the strait of Hormuz, and after the United Arab Emirates said one of its ships had been targeted by an Iranian missile, as a deal to open the waterway remained out of reach.

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