Tugboats guide the crude oil tanker Odessa, carrying UAE crude after passing through the Strait of Hormuz at Daesan port. (REUTERS FILE)
A tanker carrying nearly 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil was hit by a drone in Iraqi territorial waters on Wednesday, port officials said, as UKMTO reported that several merchant vessels in the Gulf had been hit by disabling fire overnight.
US military says it destroyed 5 Iranian oil tankers:
The US military said that it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers on Tuesday (Sep 8) after attacks by Tehran on its warships.
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The US Central Command (CENTCOM) in a post on X said, “The CENTCOM forces destroyed five Iranian crude oil carriers, Sept. 8, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted a U.S. Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the past two days.”
CENTCOM said that it destroyed the IRGC crude oil carriers M/T Kaviz, M/T Charminar, M/T Horizon 1, and M/T Riesco in the Gulf of Oman as well as M/T Derya near Kharg Island.
Jordan most Iranian projectiles downed, no casualties reported:
Following the American strikes, Iran launched retaliatory strikes targeting the US bases in Jordan. Jordan’s air-defence systems said that it destroyed 18 of 20 ballistic missiles launched from Iranian territory, the state news agency reported, citing the armed forces. Two projectiles fell in unpopulated areas, and there were no casualties, the news agency reported the military as saying.
Rubio warns US will sink more Iranian oil tankers if warship attacks continue:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Iran that the United States will continue to launch retaliatory strikes targeting Iranian oil tankers over attempted attacks on US warships.
“Iran continues to try to hit US naval ships, and for every time they do that or try to do that, they’re going to lose tankers,” Rubio told reporters during a visit to Colombia.
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