Israeli ship blast was a response to Israeli air strikes say hardliners
A military alliance between Iran, the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Syrian army was behind an explosion aboard an Israeli-owned ship on 25 February in the Gulf of Oman, according to an Iranian conservative newspaper
The Kayhan daily, which has close ties to Iran's supreme leader, revealed that despite Iranian officials' rejection of any involvement in the blast, the "Axis of Resistance" carried out the attack.
'The incident in the Sea of Oman, regardless of who carried it out, was a highly professional operation that would disillusion the Zionist regime'