Rubio says Iran will lose tankers if it tries to hit US Navy ships
Rubio says Iran will lose tankers if it tries to hit US Navy ships US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Iran on Tuesday that the US would continue to strike Iranian oil tankers in retaliation for 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…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Iran that it would lose oil tankers if it continued to try to attack US warships. According to Rubio, for every attempt Iran makes to hit US naval ships, it will lose tankers.
The US Central Command reported that it destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers in response to Iran targeting a US navy warship. The tankers destroyed were the Kivik, Charminar, Horizon 1, Riesco, and Derya, located in the Gulf of Oman and near Kharg Island in the Strait of Hormuz. The crews of the vessels were told to abandon ship before the attacks.
The US strikes come after a series of escalations between the US and Iran, including attempted attacks on a US warship by Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Iran's claim to have seized an advanced submarine drone, which the US Central Command said had malfunctioned. Iran's Revolutionary Guard has threatened to respond to the US strikes.
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