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”.
The UAE had blamed Iran for the attack, condemned also by Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar and Syria.
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”.
