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Iran hit the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital with a drone strike as it kept striking targets around the region.
Video verified by The Times showed that an Iranian one-way attack drone struck a radome on Saturday in the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain. The base is the United States’ primary hub for coordinating naval operations in the Middle East.
Iran struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital early Tuesday as it kept hitting targets around the region, while the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what U.S.
The attack on the CIA station in Riyadh comes as Iran widens retaliation across the Middle East in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign.
The Central Intelligence Agency's station at the U.S. Embassy in ​Saudi Arabia was hit on Monday by ‌a suspected Iranian drone, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are both accelerating oil exports, adding barrels to global markets at a time when the US is deploying military assets in the Middle East, creating uncertainty about future supply.
Strikes on sites in Qatar and Saudi Arabia forced the closure of key production facilities and added to growing worries about global oil and gas supplies.
Cristiano Ronaldo remains in Saudi Arabia with Al-Nassr undergoing rehabilitation for an injury despite reports his private jet has left the country amid the Middle East conflict. It was reported on Tuesday that a jet owned by the 41-year-old left Saudi Arabia on Monday night.