Iran denies helping Houthis hit Saudi oil pipeline, calls US claims ‘manufactured lies’

A planned Iran–Gulf meeting in Salalah, Oman, on maritime navigation through the Strait of Hormuz was postponed after Saudi Arabia requested a delay, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said. Baqaei also categorically denied Iranian involvement in the reported attack on Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline and rejected any link between Tehran and the escalating Yemen conflict.