Saudi Arabia runs out of oil to export within days unless it restarts the East-West pipeline, and satellite photographs released Sunday night show why it can't. Friday's drones left the pumping station at al-Mesabaah charred and wrecked, the Guardian reported Monday. Two regional officials told the Associated Press the repair will take three to five weeks. Aramco did not respond.
Diesel hit $6.23 a gallon Monday, a record, AAA said. Brent crude passed $109 and American crude neared $105, NBC News reported.
Two days earlier Trump had the answer. In Dublin on Saturday he said "the Houthis called us, and they don't want to fight with us," and that the war ends after the midterms. Narativ reported it that afternoon.
The Houthis answered Monday. They said they fired dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at King Khalid airbase in Khamis Mushait in southern Saudi Arabia — hangars, radar, runways, ammunition depots — as payback for 300 Saudi air strikes on Yemen in five days, Al Jazeera reported.
Then the diplomacy went. Iran and the Gulf states were to meet in Oman on Monday on the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia asked to put it off; Oman and Iran announced the delay late Sunday, and Iran's spokesman blamed "events unfolding in Yemen" — events Tehran has "no relations whatsoever" with, he added.
Both routes Saudi oil takes to the sea are now closed or under someone else's guns, and the crown prince has already been told what Washington will do about it.
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