How Iran Just Broke the U.S. Oil Shield In Saudi Arabia Yet Again

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Iran-backed Houthi attacks reportedly struck Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura oil refinery again, raising concerns about regional defenses and pushing oil prices higher. The incident highlights the vulnerability of energy infrastructure to attacks by Iran-aligned forces.

The attacks last week in Saudi Arabia’s largest oil refinery, Ras Tanura (again), by the Iran-backed Houthis (again), which pushed oil prices up (again), once more underlined the powerlessness of the region to properly defend itself from Iran and its network of proxies and the redundancy of the billions of dollars’ worth of defence equipment the region’s countries bought from the U.S. to do precisely this. Aside from reminding Washington and its allies that Tehran can strike wherever and whenever it chooses to in the region, the…