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IRGC claims to hit oil tanker in Gulf that belongs to Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s Revolutionary Guards confirm that they had struck an oil tanker in the Gulf, claiming it belonged to Israel.
“An oil tanker belonging to the illegitimate and child-killing Zionist regime with the trade name ‘Aqua 1’ in the central region of the Persian Gulf was precisely targeted in the valiant missile battle of the IRGC naval forces, and is burning,” the Guards say in a statement carried by state television.
Qatar had earlier said the tanker was hit in its territorial waters.
Iran has previously claimed to hit tankers belonging to Israel when the connections to the Jewish state were indirect at best.
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