UN Security Council will receive tankers’ sabotage probe results

UN Security Council will receive tankers’ sabotage probe results

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Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, June 6, 2019 - The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Norway will on Thursday present to members of the United Nations Security Council the result of their investigations into the recent sabotage attack targeting four oil tankers off the UAE coast near the Fujairah port.

This report was provided by Channel News Asia on Wednesday citing unspecified diplomatic sources. The U.S. is insisting that Iran was behind the attacks.

U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton says Iranian made sea mines have most likely been used in these sabotage attacks.

Last week Ambassador Bolton said his country will provide the Security Council with documents showing Tehran’s involvement in the Fujairah bombings.

During his trip to London, Bolton reiterated the Iranian regime’s threats in the Middle East have not come to an end, insisting U.S.’ “immediate” reaction to Iran’s threats helped neutralize these threats.

The Wall Street Journal cited Ambassador Bolton’s comments on Wednesday saying the U.S. has little doubt that Iran was behind the attacks.

 “Who else would you think was doing it?” he asked, declining to give details of the assessment. “Somebody from Nepal?”

Another U.S. official told the WSJ that on the night of the tanker attacks, an American destroyer, the USS Mason, tracked 20 Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) sea vessels leaving Iran, crossing international waters and entering UAE waters near the port of Fujairah, where nearly 100 tankers were waiting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Saudi Gazette also cited Bolton saying the U.S. will next week provide the UN Security Council with findings showing Tehran’s in the oil tankers’ sabotage off the UAE coast.