Moreover, Johnsonhas said Britain would consider joining the United States-led international maritime coalition to secure the free movement and ease the heightened tensions in the Middle East amidst Saudi Aramco oil plants attack on Sep 14.
Johnson told journalists while emplaned on late Sunday to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) that now Britain is “attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to Iran” for the oil attack by cruise missiles and military drones.
“We will be working with our American friends and our European friends to construct a response that tries to de-escalate tensions in the Gulf region,” Johnson said.
The Prime Minister said he was looking forward to Britain to be “a bridge between our European friends and the Americans when it comes to the crisis in the Gulf”. He stressed for the need for responding to the Gulf tensions.
“We will be following that very closely,” Johnson said. “And clearly if we are asked, either by the Saudis or by the Americans, to have a role, then we will consider in what way we could be useful. We will consider in what way we could be useful, if asked, depending on what the exact plan is.”
The declaration was made on Friday by Houthi’s supreme political council head Mahdi al-Mashat – who is in-charge of rebel-held regions in Yemen, according to Al-Jazeera news reports.
“We declare ceasing to target the Saudi Arabian territory with military drones, ballistic missiles and all other forms of weapons, and we wait for a reciprocal move from them,” Mashat said on the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV.
The announcement has come after Houthi claimed the responsibility of drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities last week. Though, Houthi reiterated its claim, Riyadh and the United States stood at their stance, blaming Iran for oil attacks.
