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Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard conducted a drill on Friday that saw “suicide drones” crash into targets and explode, triangle-shaped aircraft that strongly resembled those used in a 2019 attack in Saudi Arabia that temporarily cut the kingdom’s oil production by half.
Iran has long denied launching the attack on the sites of Abqaiq and Khurais, while Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels initially claimed the assault.
However, the United States, Saudi Arabia, and U.N. experts believe the drones were Iranian, likely launched amid an escalating series of incidents stemming from President Donald Trump’s unilateral withdraw from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
The Guard’s decision to use the drones on Friday, alongside a series of missile drills, comes as Iran tries to pressure President-elect Joe Biden over the nuclear accord, which he has said America could re-enter.
Tehran recently seized a South Korean oil tanker and began enriching uranium closer to weapons-grade levels, as the U.S. sent B-52 bombers, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, and a nuclear submarine into the region as a deterrent in Trump’s final days as president…
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