US warns Iran it will lose tankers if it targets American warships
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Tehran that Washington will continue striking Iranian oil tankers if it attacks US naval vessels.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio cautioned Iran that Washington will persist in targeting Iranian oil tankers if Tehran escalates attacks against American warships. In a briefing to reporters during a trip to Colombia, Rubio stated, "Iran persists in its efforts to target US Navy vessels, and every time it does so or attempts to, it will suffer losses of oil tankers."
Earlier on Tuesday evening, US Central Command announced that American forces had destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers on September 8 following Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' missile strikes on a US Navy warship twice within two days. Central Command affirmed that the US warship managed to evade the Iranian attacks, with no American personnel sustaining injuries.
This incident is a continuation of previous US strikes on Iranian oil tankers in retaliation for IRGC assaults on American naval vessels.
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