Show ‘evidence’ Iran attacked Saudi oil facility: Rouhani

New York: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani challenged the US and others Thursday to provide evidence to back up their accusations that Tehran carried out this month’s attack on a Saudi oil facility.
“Those who make the allegations must provide the needed proof. What is your evidence?” he told reporters in New York, a day after addressing the UN General Assembly.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have both, to varying degrees, blamed Iran for the strikes on the kingdom’s Abqaiq plant and the Khurais oil field which knocked out half of Saudi Arabia’s oil production.
France, Germany and Britain, which all remain committed to a nuclear deal with Iran that the US withdrew from last year, also pinned the blame on Iran this week.
Tehran has blasted the allegations as “ridiculous.” It denies responsibility, and the attacks have been claimed by Yemen’s Iranian-back Huthi rebels.
“If you do have any evidence or documentation please do make them available to me,” Rouhani said, adding that the US, France, Britain and Germany “should stop” supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia.