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Attack on Saudi oil sites raises risks amid US-Iran tension

A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom’s oil production threatened yesterday to fuel a regional crisis.

This as Iran denied US allegations it launched the assault and tensions remained high over Tehran’s collapsing nuclear deal. Iran called the US claims “maximum lies,” while a commander in its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard reiterated its forces could strike US military bases across the Mideast with its arsenal of ballistic missiles.

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