France has deployed a radar system on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast that faces the Persian Gulf to help the Kingdom protect its vital oil infrastructure, which was hit by attacks in September, Reuters reported on Friday, quoting senior French officials. After the mid-September attacks on Saudi oil facilities , which cut off more than 5 percent of daily global oil supply for weeks, France—which like the U.S. pointed the finger at Iran as the ultimate perpetrator of the attacks—pledged to help Saudi Arabia to protect its oil infrastructure and prevent new attacks. “In the Arabian Peninsula and Arab-Persian Gulf, where tensions are mounting, we have deployed in record time the Jaguar Task Force, which contributes to reassuring the Saudi kingdom,” Reuters quoted French President Emmanuel Macron as saying in a speech to the French military on Thursday. Through initiatives with our European partners, we are bolstering the maritime security […]