Group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication. Secretary pompei also cited video that he said showed iranian sailors removing a mine from the side of the japanese tanker but on friday the president of the company that owns the kuka said the crew saw flying objects and not a mine caused the damage and that a mine was never attached to the side of the ship Company President you too could qatada said to put a bomb in the side is something that we are not thinking multiple outlets also reported that iranian soldiers helped rescue tanker crew members the attacks and Global Oil Prices higher with benchmarks for brant crude in west texas intermediate increasing by more than 2 percent on thursday. Moving from the middle east to China Industrial output there has recently reached a recent record low the latest official figures put factory output at just growing at just 5 percent year over year in may the weakest growth figure in 17