US backs KSA and points the finger at Iran after Yemen missile attack

The White House has condemned a missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi militias on Saudi Arabia and said Iran “enabled” the attacks which had threatened stability in the Middle East.

“Houthi missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, enabled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, threaten regional security and undermine UN efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict,” it said in a statement, reported by Reuters Wednesday morning.

The statement comes after Saudi Arabia accused Iran of being behind a ballistic missile attack on Saturday carried out by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Iran has been accused of backing the militias and supplying missiles, but Iran’s UN Ambassador Gholamali Khoshrou described the allegations as “unfounded,” according to the Tasnim News Agency.

Saudi Arabia said the missile on Saturday was intercepted as it headed towards the Saudi capital Riyadh.

See full article on CNBC by Holly Ellyatt, November 8, 2017.