Original title: Who was the killer when the Israeli oil tanker was fatally attacked?
Source: Information
According to an AFP report from Jerusalem on July 31, the Israeli foreign minister said that he had asked his country’s diplomats to push the United Nations to take action against Iran on a deadly attack on a ship managed by a company under the name of a wealthy Israeli businessman.
The “Mercer Street” tanker was attacked in the North Indian Ocean on July 29, killing two crew members. The United States said it appeared to be a drone attack.
No one claimed responsibility for this incident, but the ocean intelligence company Deliad Universal said:“This latest attack is characteristic of the ongoing’shadow war’ between Israel and Iran.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Yael Rapide said on Twitter on the 30th: “I have instructed the embassies in Washington and London and the missions to the United Nations to work hand in hand with their interlocutors in the government and relevant delegations from the United Nations headquarters in New York. .”
The report quoted Rapide as saying that he also had a conversation with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and mentioned“It is necessary to make a severe response to the attack on the ship that caused the death of a British citizen.”
The tanker was sailing from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Fujairah in the UAE when it was attacked.
According to reports, the operator of this tanker is the London-based Zodiak Shipping Company under the name of Israeli businessman Ofer. The company said that the attack caused the death of a Romanian and a British.
The U.S. military said that the initial signs “clearly point to” a drone attack. The oil tanker “Mercer Street” flies the Liberian flag and the owner is a Japanese.
Iran denies attacking Israeli tankers in the waters off Oman
According to Reuters Dubai news, on August 1, local time, Iran stated that it had not participated in the attack on an Israeli oil tanker off the coast of Oman.
Said Khatibzad, spokesperson of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a weekly online press conference: “Israel’s Zionist regime has created danger, terror and violence… Tehran condemns allegations of Iran’s involvement in the attack. .”
The report quoted him as saying:“These allegations are made by Israel to divert the attention of the outside world from the facts, and they are baseless.”
There are different interpretations of what happened to the tanker. Zodiak Shipping Company called the incident a “suspected piracy” and a source at the Oman Maritime Safety Center said it was an accident outside Oman’s territorial waters.
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