‘If attack launched from Iran, will consider it act of war’: Saudi Arabia

Riyadh has rejected a claim by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement that it carried out the strikes.

‘Foreign forces raise Gulf insecurity’: Hassan Rouhani

Rouhani said Iran would present a plan for peace to the United Nations in the coming days.

Salami was speaking at Tehran's Islamic Revolution and Holy Defence museum during the unveiling of an exhibition.

The United States is also considering keeping an aircraft carrier in the region indefinitely.

Nowhere is that being felt more than in Iraq, where Shia forces linked to Iran pose a growing challenge to government authority.

Eighteen drones and 3 missiles were launched at world's largest oil processing facility, but the missiles 'fell short', Malki said.

Saturday's attacks on Saudi energy giant Aramco's Abqaiq processing plant and Khurais oil field halved the kingdom's oil output.

But he stressed that military retaliation was not yet on the table in response to the strike against a key US Mideast ally.

On Saturday, air attacks targeted Abqaiq, site of largest oil processing plant run by Aramco and the Khurais oilfield.

Saudi Arabia has spent billions on military hardware but recent events have underscored the vulnerability of its infrastructure to attack.