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Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Alam state TV channel, citing “informed regional sources”, said the attack was a “response to a recent (Zionist) attack” targeting an airport in central Syria where Iran is backing the regime. The US military said early indications “clearly point” to a drone strike on the Mercer Street, a Japanese-owned tanker flying a Liberian flag. The Mercer Street, an oil products tanker, was travelling from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates with no cargo aboard when it was struck, Zodiac Maritime said. Zodiac Maritime, the tanker’s London-based operator owned by Zionist billionaire Eyal Ofer, said a Romanian national also died in the attack. Lapid said he had also spoken to his British counterpart Dominic Raab, stressing “the need to respond severely to the attack on the ship in which a British citizen was killed”. “Iran is not just a (Zionist) problem, but an exporter of terrorism, destruction and instability that are hurting us all,” he said. “I’ve instructed the embassies in Washington, London and the UN to work with their interlocutors in government and the relevant delegations in the UN headquarters in New York,” Lapid said on Twitter. On Friday, Zionist Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said he has ordered the nation’s diplomats to push for UN action against “Iranian terrorism”. There has been no claim of responsibility for the strike, but maritime industry analysts Dryad Global said “this latest attack has the hallmarks of the ongoing (Zionist)/Iran ‘shadow war'”. The MT Mercer Street tanker was struck Thursday in the northern Indian Ocean, killing two crewmembers, in what the United States said was a drone-style attack.

JERUSALEM: The Zionist entity is pressing for international action against Iran over a deadly attack on a ship managed by a Zionist billionaire, branding Tehran an “exporter of terrorism” after the likely drone strike. This combination of file pictures shows (top left to right) damage to the hull of the Iranian-flagged Sabiti tanker damaged Zionist-owned Bahamian-flagged MV Helios Ray cargo ship docked in Dubai’s Port Rashid Iranian forces in a helicopter boarding a tanker in international waters in the Gulf of Oman (bottom left to right) damage to Japanese oil tanker Kokuka Courageous off the port of Fujairah a burning oil tanker in the Mediterranean off the Syrian coast damaged Saudi oil tanker Amjad off the coast of Fujairah.
