Commercial vessels were hit by missiles near the Strait of Hormuz early Tuesday as stalled negotiations between Iran and the United States over security in the strategic waterway came under renewed strain, with Tehran and Washington offering different accounts of the attacks, Iran International reports.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said it received a report that a tanker traveling south about eight nautical miles east of Limah, Oman, had been struck on its port side by an unknown projectile, causing a fire. It said no casualties or environmental damage had been reported and authorities were investigating.
A Saudi-flagged crude oil tanker was also damaged close to the coast of Oman, maritime security sources said on Tuesday. Maritime security sources said the crude tanker was believed to be the Wedyan supertanker.
US officials told Axios and The Wall Street Journal that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps fired missiles at two commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Both vessels, the officials said, sustained significant damage but there were no reported casualties.
Iranian state television offered a different account, reporting that the vessel had ignored repeated warnings while using a maritime route near the Omani coast backed by the United States. The tanker, it said, was struck after failing to heed those warnings.
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