The American army announced on Wednesday that it had fired on an Iranian-flagged oil tanker that had attempted to break the blockade of Iranian ports imposed by Washington to “neutralize the government”.
The American military announced on Wednesday that it had fired on an Iranian-flagged oil tanker attempting to breach the blockade of Iranian ports imposed by Washington to “neutralize the government.” “U.S. forces operating in the Gulf enforced the blockade measures by neutralizing an Iranian-flagged oil tanker without cargo that was attempting to sail to an Iranian port on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. Washington time,” wrote the U.S. Central Command for the Middle East (Centcom) on X. “After the crew of the Hasna did not comply with repeated warnings, U.S. forces neutralized the oil tanker’s rudder by firing several volleys” from an aircraft launched from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, deployed in the region, it added, noting that “the Hasna is no longer en route to Iran.”
