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Iran’s supreme leader approved Saudi oil attacks: report
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Iran’s supreme leader personally approved devastating airstrikes on Saudi oil facilities – but insisted that Iran be able to plausibly deny the attacks, according to a new report Wednesday evening.

The alleged sign-off by Ayatollah Ali Khameni was revealed by a US official, CBS News said.

The US has damning evidence of Iran’s involvement in the form of secret satellite photos that show its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps preparing to launch Saturday’s attacks from the Ahvas Air Base in southwestern Iran, officials told the network.

But in a bitter twist, no one realized the significance of the surveillance images until it was too late, CBS said.

“We were caught completely off guard,” one US official said