Saudi Arabia on Saturday said that Yemen's Houthi rebels tried to attack Riyadh with a ballistic missile, the first time the Saudi capital has been targeted since the escalation in fighting with the Iran-backed rebels opened a new front in the Iran war.The statement said the attack was intercepted.Some residents in Riyadh heard an explosion, and later some saw a plume of smoke near the airport.
There were no reports of casualties or damage.The statement also said the Houthis tried to attack civilian infrastructure in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu — where a key Saudi pipeline ends — and in Taif, Baysh and Farasan but they were thwarted, giving no further details.The Houthis earlier claimed, without providing evidence, that they had targeted "sensitive sites" in Riyadh and facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco in Yanbu, causing "massive fires." Aramco, the world's largest oil company, did not respond to a request for comment.The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, told Al Jazeera in an interview that Iran has conveyed its conditions for ending the war to the U.S.via Qatar and it is waiting for President Donald Trump's response.It was not clear when the conditions were shared.
Rezaei said they include ending the war on all fronts, releasing assets seized from Iran and ending the U.S.naval blockade of Iranian ports.
Earlier U.S.-Iran negotiations fell apart.He also said Iran wants the fighting involving Yemen and Saudi Arabia to end.The head of U.S.Central Command said the military has supported the transit of 1 billion barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz over the past two months and claimed that Iran has "exported zero barrels" because of a U.S.
blockade.Adm.Brad Cooper said the strait's primary transit lanes have been cleared of mines, and the volume of oil, natural gas and cargo transiting over the past two weeks is the highest it has been in six months — or shortly after the war began with U.S.
and Israeli strikes.But ...