US strikes Iranian tankers after more attempted missile attacks on Navy warship
CENTCOM said the tankers belonged to the IRGC and crews were ordered off ship before the vessels were rendered inoperable.
- On Tuesday, American forces struck Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island in response to attempted missile attacks on a Navy warship in the region.
- Washington is pursuing a "full court press" strategy "to ramp up economic pressure on the regime," conducting escort operations and maintaining a blockade on Iranian ports.
- The Revolutionary Guard Navy warned tanker crews near Kuwait and Bahrain to immediately abandon their vessels, threatening to strike ships in retaliation for American attacks.
- Rising energy prices pushed Brent crude to $99.46 on Tuesday, creating political pressure for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party ahead of upcoming elections.
- The Trump administration imposed sanctions on more than two dozen aviation companies Tuesday, targeting Tehran's remaining trading partners as both nations contest the Strait of Hormuz.
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US attack destroys five Iranian oil tankers
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Badische Neueste NachrichtenAgain, the US military targets Iranian tankers. Tehran's response is immediate. Both sides speak of retribution.
The situation in the Strait of Hormuz is getting worse: after the U.S. military attacked several Iranian oil tankers, the Islamic Republic reacted with retaliation strikes. Two U.S. ships and eight oil tankers had been attacked, who had tried to cross a "forbidden and insecure" area in the Straits, claimed the Revolutionary Guards.
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Iran's tankers were destroyed after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had twice attacked an American naval vessel with ballistic missiles in the past two days and declared it to the US Forces Central Command.
The Central Command of the United States has communicated that the American forces have hit and rendered unusable five Iranian oil tankers, in response to two attempts of attack with ballistic missiles against a ship of war of the U.S. Navy happened in the two days precedence. The ship would have avoided both the attacks and, according to the Centcom, no American military has been wounded. According to Washington, four of the oil tankers M/T Kav…
U.S. forces attacked Iranian oil tankers, Revolutionary Guard responded against two U.S. ships and several oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, in a new escalation of the conflict.
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