DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A cruise missile and drone fragments that Saudi Arabia says it recovered from an attack on its oil industry bear similarities to Iranian-manufactured weapons, though more information is needed to make a definitive link, analysts told The Associated Press on Wednesday .
That means it could not have been fired from Yemen, which is over 1,000km from the oil-processing facility and oil field that were targeted in Saturday's attack claimed by the Houthis. The location where the cruise missile fell harmlessly to the ground, north of its intended target, also suggests it came from the north, said Sim Tack, an analyst at the Texas-based private intelligence firm Stratfor.
Iran long has denied arming the Houthis, though UN experts, Western nations and the Saudi-led coalition have pointed to weapons recovered on the battlefield that appear to have come from the Islamic Republic. Iran also does not offer publicly searchable databases of its weapons and their sizes for comparison, he said.
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