Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Republican Senator Jim Rich, the senior member of the US Congress International Relations Committee, sparked an interaction after a tweet criticizing the administration of President Joe Biden, following the recent attack by the Houthi group in Yemen on Saudi Arabia.
???????? Senior Republican in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jim Risch on the Saudi attacks: “At a time when the Biden administration is considering removing the Revolutionary Guard from the terrorist list, the Houthis backed by Iran are attacking our partners in the Gulf with impunity. The administration is naive in its continuation. Pursuing a bad agreement with #Tehran https://t.co/fv31ghnqJ8
In the tweet, the senator said: “While the Biden administration is considering removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the terrorist list, the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen are attacking our Gulf partners with impunity… The (US) administration is dangerously naive in its pursuit of a bad deal with Iran.” “.
Senior US Senate Republican Senator Jim Rich: “While the #Biden administration considers removing the #Iranian_Revolutionary_Guard from the terrorism list, the Iranian-backed #Houthis in #Yemen are attacking our Gulf partners with impunity. The administration is dangerously naive in continuing to pursue a bad deal with #Iran”. https://t.co/kMODk77EE2
An official source in the Saudi Ministry of Energy announced, on Friday, that the attacks that targeted the petroleum products distribution station in northern Jeddah, as well as the “Mukhtara” station in the Jazan region, did not result in injuries or deaths, according to the Saudi Press Agency, “SPA”.
The source in the Ministry of Energy stressed “what the Kingdom previously announced that it will not bear any responsibility for any shortage of oil supplies to global markets, in light of the continuous sabotage attacks against its oil facilities by the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia.”