U.S. Cites Evidence That It Says Shows Iran Attacked Tanker
- Recovered parts ‘nearly identical’ to previous Iranian drones
- Iran warns Israel against ‘adventurism and miscalculations’
The Mercer Street tanker in 2016. The oil tank reportedly came under attack off the coast of Oman on July 29.
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The U.S. cited evidence for the first time Friday to back up its assertion that Iran was behind the deadly drone attack on an Israeli-managed tanker last week.
Multiple parts of the unmanned aerial vehicle that killed two crew members were recovered and “were nearly identical to previously collected examples from Iranian one-way attack UAVs,” Captain Bill Urban, spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said in a statement. “U.S. experts concluded based on the evidence that this UAV was produced in Iran.”