UK joins US in blaming Iran for tanker attacks
by Joel Gehrke
June 14, 2019 04:50 PM
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.”
That message was circulated Friday afternoon, as Iranian officials accused President Trump’s administration of trying to frame the regime for the attack. The British conclusion corroborated a series of releases from the Defense Department, which released video of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessel removing a magnetic mine from one of the damaged tankers.
“There is recent precedent for attacks by Iran against oil tankers,” the U.K. statement continued, citing an investigation led by the United Arab Emirates into attacks on four other oil tankers last month. “We are confident that Iran bears responsibility for that attack.”
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