Iran denies responsibility for drone strike on tanker near India: ‘US accusation is baseless’

Iran denies it was responsible for a drone strike that damaged a ship off the Indian coast on Saturday.

When asked about the attack, a spokesman for Tehran’s Foreign Ministry says the “US accusation is baseless,” the Reuters news agency reports.

The Pentagon said the chemical tanker struck off the coast of India was targeted “by a one-way attack drone fired from Iran.”

No injuries were reported.

The attack on the ship came amid a wave of drone and missile attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on a vital shipping lane in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The Houthis have launched more than 100 drone and missile attacks in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel is battling the Hamas terror group following its October 7 massacre in Israel, when terrorists killed 1,200 people and took some 240 hostages.