Iran claims responsibility for attack on US tanker in Persian Gulf

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Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed an attack Thursday on an American oil tanker in the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Thursday it had hit a US oil tanker in the northern part of the Persian Gulf. UKMTO

The statement read on Iranian state television did not elaborate, but may be linked to an attack off the coast of Kuwait earlier in the day in which a tanker was targeted, according to a report from the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center.

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