🇮🇷🇮🇱🚨‼️ BREAKING: “The attack on the ship linked to Israel off the coast of India was carried out by a drone launched from Iran”
— Israeli Channel 12, cited by Al Jazeera pic.twitter.com/sPYRd0VuXk
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 23, 2023
I don’t know what these people think.
An Israel-affiliated merchant vessel was struck by an uncrewed aerial vehicle off India’s west coast, British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Saturday, in the first such known attack so far away from the Red Sea since the Gaza war.
A fire on the Liberian-flagged tanker was extinguished without crew casualties in the incident 200 km (120 miles) southwest of the Indian city of Veraval, it said, adding some “structural damage was also reported and some water was taken onboard”.
“Merchant vessels are advised these types of attacks are typically targeted at Israel-affiliated shipping, but have in the past mistakenly hit previously Israel-affiliated vessels,” Ambrey said. “This event fell within Ambrey’s Iranian UAV heightened threat area.”
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Indian news agency ANI, in which Reuters has a minority stake, identified the tanker as MV Chem Pluto carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia. Citing Indian defence sources, ANI said the tanker had around 20 Indians on board.
Well.
Don’t work with Israel.
Israel is at war. People don’t like it.
Iran is threatening to close the Mediterranean Sea without specifying how.
The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has said the Mediterranean could be closed if the United States and its allies continue to commit crimes in Gaza.
“They will soon face the closure of the… pic.twitter.com/4UKCn0t20B— S p r i n t e r (@Sprinter99800) December 23, 2023
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