The attack on the oil tanker in Oman, the latest episode in the long shadow war between Iran and Israel

JERUSALEM – Friday’s attack on the oil tanker Mercer Street in the Gulf of Oman extends the game to more international players, and with it the possible perimeter of reactions: on the Japanese-owned ship, operated by the London-based company Zodiac Maritime, of the billionaire Israeli Eyal Ofer, two crewmen, an Englishman and a Romanian, lost their lives.