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The United States subject disabled the Botswana-flagged lipid tanker M/T Lexie successful planetary waters aft the vas allegedly ignored repeated warnings and continued sailing towards Iran's Kharg Island, the US cardinal bid said.
It besides released the video from erstwhile a US craft struck the ship.According to the cardinal command, the US fired a Hellfire rocket astatine the vessel sailing done the cardinal lipid export terminal successful the Arabian Gulf, preventing it from reaching the Iranian larboard arsenic portion of Washington's ongoing maritime blockade measures against Iran.US defence caput Pete Hegseth besides reshared the video connected his X.
In a statement, CENTCOM said the tanker was unladen astatine the clip of the incidental and failed to comply with directions issued by US forces connected aggregate occasions implicit a 24-hour period.
The vas continued its people contempt repeated warnings earlier American forces intervened, prompting a US craft to yet disable the vessel by firing a Hellfire rocket into its motor room, rendering it incapable to proceed towards Kharg Island.
The enactment forms portion of a wider US enforcement run that began connected April 13, erstwhile CENTCOM started implementing a blockade connected maritime postulation entering and leaving Iranian ports.
According to the subject command, US forces person truthful acold disabled six commercialized vessels and redirected 122 others during the operation, which has continued alongside a ceasefire with Iran.
IRGC strikes 'US-owned' vessel successful Hormuz
Separately, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) confirmed that its vessel, Sariska V, was struck by 2 projectiles successful the larboard of Umm Qasr connected Monday. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) had earlier reported an onslaught connected a vas southeast of Umm Qasr without identifying the vessel involved.Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) aboriginal claimed work for the strike, describing the Sariska V arsenic a "US-owned" vessel and saying the onslaught was retaliation for an earlier onslaught connected an Iranian vas adjacent Oman.MSC rejected the allegation, saying the onslaught was "completely unjustified based connected the allegations made by the IRGC since MSC is simply a neutral commercialized bearer with nary affiliation to the United States oregon Israel."The institution added that it is headquartered successful Switzerland and wholly owned by Italian nationals.
