Other U.S. officials said that investigations showed that the points of impact were located mainly in the northwestern side of the Aramco facilities, indicating that the attacks came from Iran or Iraq, which are located to the north of the Kingdom, instead of Yemen, which is located to the south.
But Iran strongly dismissed the U.S. accusations as "baseless" "big lies."
Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a statement on Sunday that the U.S. accusations are "meaningless and incomprehensible within the diplomatic norms."
Mousavi said on Monday that the Houthi attacks on Saudi targets was a natural response from the Yemenis and their army to the "crimes" committed by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday described the U.S. policies as the "root cause of problems in the Middle East region."
"What is taking place in this region ... is the result of erroneous plans and conspiracies of the United States," Rouhani said before leaving for Ankara, Turkey to hold a trilateral summit with leaders of Russia and Turkey.
RISKS OF U.S.-IRAN OR SAUDI-IRAN CONFLICT
The attacks on Saudi oil facilities have ratcheted up the already tense situation in the Middle East caused by the U.S. maximum pressure policies on Iran, including a total oil trade ban.
On Monday, the Saudi-led coalition said that initial investigations indicated that Iranian weapons were used in the two Saudi Aramco attacks, while refraining from directly blaming them on Iran.
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