U.S. President, Donald Trump
disclosed on Friday that his country would slam sanctions on Iran’s national
bank following attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.
He said that the new sanctions on
Tehran would be the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country.
Xinhua reports that Trump
disclosed this while speaking to newsmen at the White House.
The latest punishment came two
days after Trump revealed in a tweet that he had instructed the Secretary of
the Treasury to substantially increase sanctions on Iran.
Washington had accused Iran of
being behind Saturday’s drone attacks on oil production facilities in eastern
Saudi Arabia, a claim that had been strongly denied by Tehran.
On Monday, President Muhammadu
Buhari had said the Federal Republic of Nigeria stands in solidarity with the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, following drone attacks on the refinery plants at
Khurais and Abqaiq.
“We in Nigeria once experienced
attacks on our own oil facilities. Those who sought, by doing so, to undermine
governments of the day did not succeed then – nor at any time.
“The identities of those who sent
the drones to attack the Saudi refineries, and from where, may not yet be
known”, the President said.
“Still, these attacks similarly
represent economic warfare aimed at damaging a government, but, in reality,
always and only damaging innocent citizens’ livelihoods: those with no place,
nor cause, to be harmed.
“The attackers of Saudi Arabia
will win no friends in the international community for their actions – whoever
they may be, and however certain they be in their cause,” the Nigerian leader
added.
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