Saudi Arabia, Yemen condemn attack on UAE oil tanker

Saudi Arabia, Yemen condemn attack on UAE oil tanker Saudi Arabia has condemned the attack on an oil tanker operated by the UAE’s ADNOC while transiting the Strait of Hormuz as “an assault on global energy security”. In a statement, the Saudi ministry of foreign affairs said: “These reprehensible attacks constitute an assault on the security and safety of maritime navigation, as well as on the security of global energy supplies.” The statement added that the kingdom “holds Iran responsible for the consequences of its continued acts of aggression and calls on Iran to immediately cease these violations”. Yemen’s ministry of foreign affairs joined the condemnation and called the attack “a serious threat to the security and safety of maritime navigation and commercial vessels”. The UAE had blamed Iran for the attack, condemned also by Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar and Syria. Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry also welcomed the United Nations Security Council’s Friday condemnation of the missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthis against the kingdom, as well as the attacks against commercial vessels.