by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Apr 25, 2021 - 03:45 PM
The blaze aboard an oil tanker near Syria s Banias refinery has been extinguished Sunday following a suspected drone attack which was widely reported as coming from the direction of Lebanese waters - in the words of Syria s oil ministry.
The Guardian is citing regional sources to say at
least three among the crew were killed.
While the tanker was first identified as Iranian, TankerTrackers said in a tweet that the tanker seen burning today off the coast of Banias is not an Iranian vessel but Beirut-registered. Iranian state media had also denied that it was Iranian ship. However, the vessel identified as the Beirut-registered Wisdom supertanker appears to have been
The Media Line Staff 04/25/2021
The head of Iran’s military threated Israel, a day after an attack on an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Syria. The attack on the tanker outside the Baniyas refinery off the coast of Syria is believed to have come from a drone. It sparked a fire that reportedly caused damage. The fire was put out shortly after the attack.
Mohammad Bagheri did not directly blame Israel. He told reporters in Iran that: “We don’t announce anything about the incidents that happened recently, nor do we know who did it, but the Resistance Front will teach Israel a very good lesson.” He added: “It is not clear how Iran will respond, but the Zionist regime will not remain peaceful.”
Tehran, Iran – Israel should expect more attacks on its interests in the future, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces warned, days after a rocket launched from Syria landed near an Israeli nuclear reactor.
Mohammad Bagheri said on Sunday Israel believes it can hit targets on Syrian soil and launch attacks at sea without repercussions.
“Certainly efforts undertaken in recent days and efforts in the future that will endanger their interests will bring them to their senses, and the future of the resistance front is bright,” he told reporters.
Bagheri said he had no comment on who was behind recent attacks, but added he was confident “the resistance front will give the Zionists a fundamental response”.
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Chief of Staff of Iran s Armed Forces, General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri delivers a speech during a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq s 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, on September 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Iran’s Armed Forces chief Mohammad Bagheri on Sunday threatened to “teach Israel a very good lesson,” appearing to hint the Jewish state was behind a reported attack on an Iranian tanker off Syria’s coast over the weekend, but stopping short of blaming Jerusalem directly for the incident.
Bagheri told reporters: “We don’t announce anything about the incidents that happened recently, nor do we know who did it, but the Resistance Front will teach Israel a very good lesson,” according to several Iranian journalists.
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