The nighttime strikes penetrated a secure part of the embassy where several hundred people would have been working in the day
Incredible restraint
The “limited fire” originally described by the Saudi Defense Ministry, according to the WSJ, lasted half a day and caused extensive damage to three floors of the embassy, which are now deemed unrecoverable.
In the hours following the fire, the Saudi Ministry of Defense announced that it had intercepted and destroyed eight drones near the cities of Riyadh and Al-Kharj.
The recent WSJ report further elaborated that one of the drones was believed to have been aimed at the residence of the highest-ranking US diplomat, located just a few hundred feet from the embassy.
Bernard Hudson, a former CIA counterterrorism chief with extensive experience in Persian Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, commented on the situation to the WSJ regarding US embassies and bases, “There’s been a complete blackout on the actual amount of damage done to these places.”
“That feeds suspicions that a lot more damage may have actually happened,” he added.
Hudson noted, “It [the Iranian regime] was able to produce an indigenously made weapon, fire it across hundreds of miles, and hit the embassy of their top opponent, which indicates they could have targeted anything in the city.”
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