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Iran says struck oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz
TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Friday they struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, according to state news agency IRNA, as a British maritime agency also reported an attack. Iran has maintained its stranglehold on the strategic strait as Washington continues pressing its counterblockade of Iranian ports during the Middle East war. The Islamic republic wants to charge ships for passage, attacking vessels it accuses of attempting to circumvent its preferred route. “The Togo-flagged oil tanker ‘Trend’ had been targeted and detained after a fire broke out on board” late on Thursday...
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