US Accuses Iran of Indian Ocean Attack as Shipping Threat Grows
- New attack expands areas of risk to global shipping routes
- Iran’s military shows off new cruise missiles on state TV
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The US accused Iran of being behind an attack on a tanker in the Indian Ocean as the threat to shipping triggered by Israel’s war with Hamas spread beyond the Red Sea.
Iran fired a one-way drone that struck the Chem Pluto — a Liberia-flagged, Japanese-owned and Netherlands-operated chemical tanker — on Saturday about 200 nautical miles from the coast of India, according to a Pentagon statement. There were no casualties.