Hello. Im kris jansing and there is Breaking News at this hour. The u. S. Military announcing it launched two air strikes on two locations over Eastern Syria used by iran guard and troops. The defense secretary said the launches were against ongoing iranian backed Militia Groups that began just over a week ago. In those instances militants used drones and rockets to attack multiple u. S. Installations in the region. The pentagon said those attacks left 21 americans with minor injuries, one u. S. Contractor die of a cardiac event. Now, there is a precedent here. The u. S. Has launched similar air strikes in Syria Including Last march when another u. S. Contractor was killed by a Militia Drone in syria. Defense secretary Austin Describeded the overnight launches as, quote, selfdefense and in a statement called them separate and distinct from the hamas conflict. But of course iran is a backer of hamas. All of it putting u. S. Forces in a delicate position, trying to protect personnel whil
side would make enough concessions to make it worthwhile for the europeans to contemplate a compromise on their site so everything is still to play for barber faisal in luxembourg thank you barbara. now president donald trump says that the united states could respond militarily to 2 drone attacks on saudi arabia s oil facilities in a tweet trump said that the u.s. was quote locked and loaded who think rebels based in yemen have claimed responsibility for the attacks but washington blames iran. these oil tanks are exhibit a as the world tries to assess who was responsible for attacks on saudi facilities they show almost identical impact points which u.s. officials say indicate a high degree of sophistication in the attack. hooty rebels in saudi arabia s
someone else take risk responsibility which which gives you political leverage and if deniability which is important i guess politically we have the united states saying that they re locked and loaded what do you make of that let s bring. might be dangerous and on the thrum but on the other hand on the trump has repeatedly made such remarks on iran. for example in the ball to take on iran a couple of weeks back so. it s a dangerous situation i guess but the rising oil prices indicate what would happen if that would really be. a conflict happening that would read the eula devastating blow to the world economy and we also have the german foreign minister heikal masi was also really not dismissive of how serious the situation is condemning the
neighbor yemen initially seem to take responsibility they ve been fighting the saudis and their proxy forces for years in yemen civil war. but some analysts doubt whether the rebels could have launched drones or missiles that could hit the saudi tanks yemen is also to the south of the saudi refineries the impact sites suggest an attack from the northwest or the north the direction of iraq and the hooty strong backers iran u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh said the u.s. would make sure that quote iran is held accountable for its aggression and his boss president donald trump took to twitter to threaten those responsible there is reason to believe that we know the culprit we are locked and loaded depending on verification but are waiting to hear from the kingdom but iran deflected the blame . we reject these types of statements and projections the islamic republic of iran has clearly declared that it supports the people of yemen and their rights but
to accuse the islamic republic of iran with these attacks and defensive measures is in line with the united states maximum falsehood policy they ve adopted after their own failures. oil prices spiked as traders start to take account of saudi arabia s seeming inability to defend its crucial oil infrastructure and governments including germany s have condemned the attack. but it s unclear what the long term picture looks like everything depends on what the us and other players do next to call or aggravate the situation in one of the world s most volatile regions. let s get more on this we are joined here in the studio by tobin shots he is an expert on defense from the german council on foreign relations welcome to the program. we have the united states saying that these satellite images they show clearly they show definitively that the attacks come from the direction of iran or