U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that he approved the release of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve, if needed, to keep the global oil market "well-supplied."
The rise in oil prices have deepened the fears about the global economic downturn.
Hany Soliman, executive manager of Arab Center for Researches and Studies in Cairo, Egypt, told Xinhua that the oil price spike could threaten the world oil supply and the people's life.
"So, Iran wants to turn the problem from local or regional to international crisis," he said, citing Iran is somewhat related to the attacks as the Houthis are allied with Tehran.
BLAME GAME ON WHO IS BEHIND ATTACKS
In the wake of the attacks, the U.S. and Iran started a blame game on who should be held responsible, with both sides pointing the finger at each other for heightening the tensions in the Middle East.
Earlier on Saturday, Yemen's Iran-allied Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for launching a 10-drone attacks on major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia as a retaliation against "the Saudi regime's aggression and economic blockade" against Yemen.
However, the U.S. squarely held Iran accountable for the attacks, insisting that they did not come from Yemen as the Houthis claimed.
"Amid all the calls for de-escalation, Iran has now launched an uNPRecedented attack on the word's energy supply. There is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Saturday.
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