so there are questions raised whether the ruthie's have such knowledge we have also now different accounts provided by. by someone who is from the iraqi intelligence and he said that those attacks came from iranian allied. shia militias from inside iraq. and so we have different accounts he was gone and out and as for now we don't know for sure what is going on so if we don't know who's behind it it's calm we speculate on what the reasons might be well when it comes to this iraqi variety of the story according to this senior iraqi intelligence man who was quoted by middle east i he said that this was as a reach this was a retaliation of israeli attacks on. xabi which is the popular movies a mobilization from the shia militia supported by iran in iraq that occurred at the hands of the israelis in august and this attack by the israelis on those iraqi militias in august was funded by the saudis so this is. so this is you know this is a kind of retaliation against south. arabia so this is could be one possibility another possibility could be that you know somehow iran could be behind that and

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maybe iran attacked saudi arabia but it's harder for bin cement to accept that the militia in the ruthie's attacked saudi arabia and this is why we see the us so heavily invested with the who thinks they want to show that everybody is on their side they want to convince saudis and convince the public opinion and it may be true i'm not denying it but they want to convince people that they have allies everywhere they have allies in palestine in iraq in iran in within yemen and the like it's all part of this grand p.r. campaign that they've succeeded in doing which has transformed the human conflict from an issue of a coup against a national dialogue to one in which the now of saudi arabia is much securing yemenis and the like so this is a big p.r. battle and this is why i think the who these are focusing on this particular angle sami were already saying retaliatory attacks by the saudis on he positions what kind of retaliation do you think we could see inside saudi arabia should we be expecting a crackdown especially on the shia population in eastern province. i think what's interesting is t

using drones and combat this small cheap to produce and capable of evading brage all systems the ruthie's of use drones to avoid saudi arabia's patriot missile defense systems allowing the rebels to fire ballistic missiles into the kingdom unchallenged saudi's vast oil fields and pipeline network have been a prime target saturday's strike on the cake facility has been the most the largest and daring to date and the rebels technology is becoming more sophisticated with their drones now able to reach targets in most of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. well earlier we spoke to brett volek of it choose a military drone expert and a former u.s. army special operations member he says saudi arabia just isn't prepared to deal with such attacks. drone strikes in this case hit deeper into saudi territory than previous strikes and that takes incredible sophistication it's very interesting that you know this attack happened with that level of sophistication that we haven't seen before while we don't know the exact type of drone in the attack we can look at previous who's the strikes to point to drones of

what this attack does is it lays bare the absolute vulnerability of the saudis to attacks from the ruthie's the drone attacks this was a sophisticated attack it was i believe 10 to drones involved it was curdled very precisely it target of what is the nerve center of saudi aramco and is a hugely damaging impact on the facility but more broadly on the saudis ability to defend their essential infrastructure and i think that's very damaging particularly as you say because the saudis are trying to float once again the i.p.o. of over and go so is this a turning point does this change the calculus in some way the fact that there is this capability to reach so deeply into the kingdom in this way well it's an interesting question i think the saudis are really caught in a cleft here because after all the americas my pompei was announce that iran is responsible whereas evidence well it's not bothering to show the evidence the who this saying oh we're responsible now the saudis have been attacked in a critical critical place right at the heart you would think they would need to make a maximum response

say thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered during a months long military campaign the ruthie's have been targeting the southern saudi region of now speaking at the un general assembly the foreign minister of yemen's internationally backed government used his speech to blame iran for the conflict in his country and jordan has. well most of the addresses before the u.n. general assembly have been filled with calls to save the planet or to promote economic and social harmony the yemeni foreign minister used his speech to attack those he says are responsible for plunging his country into war and. these are who 3 militias supported by iran the main sponsor of terrorism throughout the world is a ron with its expansion a list iran exploits the resources of its people in order to wage proxy war using militias which are capable of the most heinous forms of destruction and sabotage and. of the then how the army stepped up his rhetoric accusing to han of trying to spread yemen's war into saudi arabia and onto the high seas. yemen with iran has some heavy has wrought havoc in the arab peni

. >> reporter: but it did for others, like ruthy ranan, who's voted for netanyahu in the past: >> i voted gantz because itb needs a change, because netanyahu is doing very bad things for everybody. >> reporter: gantzthis election could bring change, but only if israelis actually vote. >> ( otranslated ): anyone stays home, doesn't take responsibility for what is going to happen. we want new hope. we vote today for change,ti without corr, without extremism. >> reporter: his supporters appe to ha heeded the warning. it's a day off in israel, but even at the beach, there was no escaping the election. at the white house yesterday, u.s. president donald trump said he expected a tight race. >> it's a 50/50 election. a lot of people, if you look at the polls and everything, it is gointo be very close. >> reporter: israelis arabs, who make up a sixth of the electorate but tend to turn out in smaller numbers than jews, also appear to have shaped the outcome. netanyahu had directed the police to be on the lookout for fraud b neighborhoods, warning his supporters, the arabs are voting this time, and