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Aug. 4, 2021 5:59 AM
The Israeli defense establishment on Tuesday night was having a hard time assessing the significance of the latest unusual incident in the Persian Gulf, off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Four days after the Iranian drone attack in the same area on a partly Israeli-owned ship, in which two European crew members were killed, five ships reported suffering a “loss of command” that prevented them from continuing their voyages.
According to a report in the Iranian media, one of the ships hit a naval mine. The British television network Sky later quoted a security source in London as saying that “eight or nine gunmen” had boarded one of the ships, an oil tanker called Asphalt Princess sailing under the Panamanian flag. According to Reuters, the gunmen are linked to Iranian security forces. This claim has no official confirmation.
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