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An Israeli-owned oil tanker was attacked by an Iranian drone while sailing in the Arabian Sea on February 10, BBC Persian reported.
Citing a US military official and a regional military source, BBC Persian said on February 17 that the attack on the tanker, Campo Square, involved several Iranian ships and likely a Shahed 136 suicide drone. The drone, which was developed by Iran’s Shahed Aviation Industries, has a range of more than 2,500 kilometers and can carry a warhead weighing up to 40 kg.
Campo Square is owned by the London-based Zodiac Shipping, which belongs to Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer. Nevertheless, the tanker is currently rented out to the Piraeus-based Greek shipping company Eletson.
Eletson later confirmed the attack on the tanker in an official statement. However, it denied that Iranian naval vessels were involved.
“Eletson confirms an incident involving our managed vessel, the Liberian flagged product tanker, Campo Square,” the statement reads. “The vessel, free of cargo in ballast transit, was hit by an airborne object while in the Arabian Sea approximately 300 nautical miles off the coasts of India and Oman.”
The company said that both Campo Square and her crew are safe and proceeding as per planned passage, noting that the tanker sustained “minor damage” only.
BBC Persian reported that the drone attack on the Israeli-owned tanker can be seen as a “sign of intensification of Iran’s threatening actions against shipping in the region.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) may have attacked Campo Square in response to the January 28 drone attack that targeted a military industrial complex in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. Tehran blamed the attack, which resulted in limited material losses, on the Israeli intelligence.
On February 10, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and the intelligence arm of IRGC announced in a joint statement that the involvement of Israel’s “mercenaries” in the attack had been “proven.” The statement also revealed that the “main perpetrators” were apprehended.
Tel Aviv and Tehran have been engaged in a yearslong shadow war in the Middle East. Attacks on Israeli and Iranian cargo vessels and tankers became recently a regular part of this war.
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Great,hit more of them,in fact board them and take the cargo.
Probably carrying stolen Syrian oil
Smells of false flag to me. The statement from the U.S. does not at all match with the statement from the ship owners. Anyone could have been in control of the drone.
40 kg warhead against such big ship is nothing. 1 anti-ship missile with 200-400 kg warhead is enough to sink a ship with ~5000 tons of displacement. “Campo square” has 110 thousand tons of dead-weight (mass of cargo, fuel and supplies for crew), its full displacement even bigger. It’s impossible to sink such ship with 40 kg warhead, especially if a ship transports no explosives and flammable materials. Looks like another BS story to accuse others.
The Israelis and their gringo slaves must be having a nervous breakdown, Iran could go for nukes and there would be nothing they could do about it, being bogged down in Ukraine and all. Slava Putin. Slava Bashar Hafez al-Assad
Not a minute without a thought anout the Jews.
You love to suck Jew cocks, you muzlim sissy. Kust admit it.
Your mother sucks big Muslim dicks you fucken PRICK.
Time to bring the war home to the fake Jews.
Time to kill all inbred muzlims
Time for all The Jews in PALESTINE to be eradicated let the real Exodus Begin…
40 kg warhead against such big ship is nothing. 1 anti-ship missile with 200-400 kg warhead is enough to sink a ship with ~5000 tons of displacement. “Campo square” has 110 thousand tons of dead-weight (mass of cargo, fuel and supplies for crew), its full displacement even bigger. It’s impossible to sink such ship with 40 kg warhead, especially if a ship transports no explosives and flammable materials. Looks like another BS story to accuse others.
40x 15… how?
Hardly a 9/11 event ..first suspect is Israel
Russia explains request to shut down Jewish NGO
İran win hard and deep. Always.
Is it true that the world is controlled by the Jëwß?
Not really but they are attention seekers and they love to steal credit from others. The only thing Zion have control over are old pigs in the Western world that suck Zion cucks for 2 dollars.
If you are living in the Western countries, yes Zion have their tentacles all over Western governments. But if you are talking about the whole world, fuk no and as matter of fact most people dislike Zionists for what they are doing and have done.
TLDR, Zionists are leeches and once you understand that you get the picture of their true faces. Trust me, once the US gone and China/Russia take over Zion leech on to them and let yanquis to die and they laugh at them.
I assume this is in response to Israel’s well publicized attack in Iran (not to mention other Israeli attacks in Iran). Iran should start publicly declaring their actions, to take control of the narrative before ‘BBC Persian’ does