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The September 14 attack on Saudi Arabia oil infrastructure was ordered by Iran’s Supreme Leader and planned with help from a number of officials including the president, according to recent disclosures by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (US-office), based on the people's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) sources inside Iran.

Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi has called on world leaders attending the G7 meeting in the French city of Biarritz to recognize the regime in Iran as a threat to world peace and security.

Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States was “locked and loaded” for a potential response to the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities after a senior administration official said Iran was at fault.

Israel said on Sunday an air strike against a branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in Syria that it accused of planning “killer drone attacks” showed Tehran that its forces were vulnerable anywhere.

On Saturday, it was reported that Iran’s Foreign Ministry had imposed sanctions on the Washington-based think tank the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. As well as underscoring a regime talking point which describes the US as being engaged in “economic terrorism,” the move is no doubt an example of Iranian retaliation against sanctions that have largely crippled the nation’s economy and prevented the export of an estimated 2.7 million barrels of oil per day.

In the midst of escalating tensions between Iran and the West, it has been easier to recognize the underlying agreement between Iran’s “hardline” and “reformist” political factions, at least where foreign policy is concerned. This is to say that representatives of the latter faction, led by President Hassan Rouhani, have been contributing to the spread of confrontational and often militarist rhetoric right alongside hardline figures like Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and officers in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.