Iran had tested a suicide drone against a practice vessel in the Gulf of Oman without warning ships in the area, Reuters reported on June 15, citing a Unite States official based in the Middle East.
The official told the news agency that the drone was launched on June 14 along with another drone or missile from the area of Jask 8-9 miles within Iran’s territorial waters.
“Essentially practicing hitting merchant vessels. That’s the only reason why you would do that in the Gulf of Oman,” the unnamed official said.
The closest merchant vessel was about 30 miles away from the practice vessel, the official said, noting that the test was “still dangerous.”
The U.S. says that Iran attacked or interfered with the navigational rights of 15 internationally flagged merchant vessels in the Gulf over the past two years.
Iranian naval forces seized on April 27 the U.S.-bound Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker Advantage Sweet while it transited international waters in the Gulf. Later on May 3, the Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi was seized while transiting from the Arabian Gulf toward the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.
The tankers were captured in response to the seizure of a China-bound Iranian oil shipment by the U.S. near southern Africa on April 22, according to a report by Reuters.
In response to the seizures, the U.S. announced on May 12 that it will increase the rotation of ships and aircraft patrolling in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Since then, tensions in the Gulf have been mounting.
what iran does in its own waters is its buisness certainly none of uss
kill those fucking mullah bastards kill ’em alll!!!
dumb pollack?
fucking palestine scum?
psychopathic outburst
says lunatic ruzzian fuckhead…
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these beautiful birds of freedom will soon flock over apartheid, occupied palestine. congratulations iran. z
they are going to crash down just as the whole fucked up mullah scum…
why am i getting an erroro when trying to post?
because the scum that compromise this board don’t like your post…even before it posts. probably hasbara.
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wait a second. those drones were autonomous, and could only hit static targets before. was the target vessel moving or not? without that information, this news is non-informational.