An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tension with Iran.
/ CBS/AP — An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened, an official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The attack happened Tuesday night off the coast of Oman, the Mideast-based defense official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they did not have authorization to discuss the attack publicly.
An Iranian-made Shahed-136 explosive drone is launched from a mobile launching unit in a screengrab taken from a propaganda video distributed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps .The Reuters news agency quoted Commander Timothy Hawkins of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, which also operates extensively across the region, as saying the American military was aware of an incident in the Gulf of Oman involving a commercial vessel, but offering no further comment.
In this June 13, 2019 file photo, an oil tanker is seen on fire in the Sea of Oman after an attack blamed on Iran. The U.S. also blamed Iran for a series of attacks occurring off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in 2019. Tehran then had begun escalating its nuclear program following the U.S.' unilateral withdraw from its atomic deal with world powers. Iranian state media did not immediately acknowledge the attack on the Pacific Zircon.
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