ONLINE
\nLONDON
\nBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused Tehran of being behind attacks on Saudi oil installations, in remarks to reporters en route to New York where he will meet with Iran\u2019s president.
\n\u201cI can tell you that the UK is attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to Iran for the Aramco attacks,\u201d he said, cited by Britain\u2019s Press Association news agency on Monday.
\nHe is due to meet with President Hassan Rouhani at the UN General Assembly in New York.
\nHe will also discuss the attacks at a joint meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
\n\u201cWe think it very likely indeed that Iran was indeed responsible for using both UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), both drones and cruise missiles,\u201d Johnson told reporters.
\n\u201cClearly the difficulty is, how do we organise a global response? What is the way forward?
\n\u201cAnd we will be working with our American friends and our European friends to construct a response that tries to de-escalate tensions in the Gulf region.\u201d
\nThe United States has accused Tehran of carrying out air attacks on Saudi Arabia\u2019s Abqaiq plant and the Khurais oil field on September 14, knocking out half the kingdom\u2019s oil production.
\nIran denies responsibility for the attacks which were claimed by Iranian-back Huthi rebels in Yemen.
\nJohnson said: \u201cClearly if we are asked either by the Saudis or the Americans to have a role then we would consider in what way we could be useful.\u201d
\nThe British premier also said he would raise the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian mother held in Tehran since 2016, when he meets with Rouhani.
\nJohnson has been accused of making her plight worse when, in a previous job as foreign minister, he said she had been training journalists in Iran before she was arrested for sedition.
\nHer family strongly denies this and he swiftly backtracked. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the media group\u2019s philanthropic arm, denies all charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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