The Iranian navy's largest ship has caught fire and sunk in the Gulf of Oman, where mysterious explosions have hit other vessels in recent years.
A U.S. warship fired warning shots when vessels of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard came too close to a patrol in the Persian Gulf, officials said.Iran’s navy typically handles patrols in the Gulf of Oman and the wider seas, while the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard operates in the shallower waters of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.
Iranian officials offered no cause for the fire aboard the Kharg. However, it comes after a series of mysterious explosions that began targeting ships in the Gulf of Oman in 2019. The U.S. Navy later accused Iran of, timed explosives typically attached by divers to a vessel’s hull. Iran denied targeting the vessels, though U.S. Navy footage showed members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing one unexploded limpet mine from a vessel. The incidents came amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran after then-President Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
In April, an Iranian ship called the MV Saviz, believed to be a Revolutionary Guard base and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen, was targeted in an attack suspected to have been carried out by Israel. It escalated a years-long shadow war in Mideast waters between the two countries. The sinking of the Kharg marks the latest naval disaster for Iran. In 2020 during an Iranian military training exercise, a missile
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