US Army attacked a ship off the coast of Oman, because it tried to approach an Iranian port, the Central Command announced SAD.
"On June 8, US forces disabled an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, because it violated the blockade, trying to sail to an Iranian port," according to the statement, according to CNN.
The tanker "Marivex" was sanctioned by the US Ministry of Finance in December last year.
The Indian Seamen's Union said 24 Indian seafarers on board were in distress. In the transcript of the call for help from the tanker, the crew stated that after the attack by the "US Navy", a fire broke out on the ship.
"The ship has been fired upon and is sinking. The US Navy has hit our engine room with a missile. Please help. There are 24 crew members from India on board," said the distress call provided to CNN.
Photos of the Marivex tanker posted on social media, confirmed by CNN, show smoke billowing from the engine room.
Iran is not interested in the opinion of the European Union or its sanctions
Iran has announced that it will maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz and said that it does not care what the European Union thinks about it, which has imposed sanctions on individuals and entities from Iran, which insist that the country has sovereignty over that waterway.
"Iran does not attach any importance to that political and hypocritical European move and will continue its strategy of maintaining sovereignty and exercising sovereign rights over the Strait of Hormuz," said Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Garibabadi.
The European Union previously announced that EU members imposed sanctions on some Iranians for restricting maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran closed when the American-Israeli attacks on Iran began.
The spokeswoman of the European Commission, Eva Hrnichorova, announced today that the war against Iran in the past three months has increased the cost of energy imports into the European Union by 47 billion euros.
Source: FoNet
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