UK joins US in blaming Iran for tanker attacks

Published June 14, 2019 8:50pm ET



British officials said Friday that the Iranian military is likely responsible for damaging two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, supporting the assessment of the Trump administration.

“It is almost certain that a branch of the Iranian military — the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — attacked the two tankers on 13 June,” a bulletin from the British government said. “No other state or non-state actor could plausibly have been responsible.”

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