RUSHIN TO BLAME IRAN FOR ATTACK ON SAUDI OIL FACILITIES: CAN WE TRUST US INTELLIGENCE?

The Houthi rebels of Yemen have launched numerous attacks using drones and even missiles on Saudi Arabia in the months leading up to Saturday morning's attack on two Saudi oil installations.

The attacks coming from a southerly direction where the Iranian backed rebels have been fighting a Saudi military coalition backed by the United States and United Kingdom in a brutal war widely condemned with the United Nations recently saying that all sides in the conflict and those nations behind them may be guilty of war crimes.

Now the United States says that based on:

"data"

and

"satellite images"

Iran is responsible with some speculation that the attack came from a north or northwesterly direction, from Iran or even Iraq where there are groups operating sympathetic to Iran.

Iran claims a campaign of:

"lies"

and

"deceit"

against it by the United States.

Iran clearly has responsibility based on its involvement with the Houthis but Washington isn't talking along those lines.

Is this just a new type of Steele Dossier or a serious look at real and meaningful evidence?

Its really hard to trust what the intelligence community puts out as truth in this day and age based on recent experience.

But I will note that Iran has been pushed by economic sanctions tantamount to those employed against Japan that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor.    No one here to excuse Japan and no one here to excuse Iran but to pretend that any attack from Japan in 1941 was "unprovoked" or that Iran does not have any cause to respond to the harsh sanctions imposed in recent years is delusional.

Lets hope that this attack on the "land of the Al Qaeda movement" not to be confused with the organization of the same name declared a US enemy is the worst that Iran will do in response to what is being done to it.    

The United States support of Al Qaeda and its sympathizers in Syria and other places by the likes of Lindsey Graham and the late John McCain has been a disgrace and even now Senator Graham pushes for military attacks on Iran that will only escalate the situation.