(Adds detail on attacks, quote from official)
DUBAI, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Attacks on oil plants in Saudi
Arabia are a dangerous escalation and the international
community should stand by Riyadh and ensure regional stability,
a senior United Arab Emirates official said on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia said initial findings indicated Saturday's
attacks that cut half the kingdom's oil output were carried out
with Iranian weapons. Riyadh said it was capable of responding
forcefully and urged U.N. experts to help investigate the raid.
"Justifying the unprecedented terrorist attack on Aramco
facilities on the basis of developments on the Yemen war is
completely unacceptable," Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Anwar Gargash said in a tweet, responding to Iranian comments
that the strikes were carried out by Yemenis in response to the
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group claimed the attacks and
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the strikes were carried
out by "Yemeni people" retaliating for attacks by a Saudi-led
military coalition in the more than four-year war with the
Houthis.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said it looked like Iran was
behind the attacks. Iran rejects this. The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, which includes
the UAE, said preliminary findings showed the attack did not
come from Yemen and that authorities were investigating where it
did originate from.