Har kriget börjat- Iran vs USA. Torpedattack utanför Iran på oljetanker (13/6-19)

The Riah, a 58-meter (190-foot) oil tanker, typically made trips from Dubai and Sharjah on the UAE’s west coast before going through the strait and heading to Fujairah on the UAE’s east coast. However, something happened to the vessel after 11 p.m. on Saturday, according to tracking data.

Capt. Ranjith Raja of the data firm Refinitiv told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the tanker hadn’t switched off its tracking in three months of trips around the UAE.

“That is a red flag,” Raja said.

Iranian officials have not said anything publicly about the ship, nor have officials in the UAE. The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, which oversees Mideast waters, declined to immediately comment.

The ship’s registered owner, Dubai-based Prime Tankers LLC, told the AP it had sold the ship to another company called Mouj Al-Bahar. A man who answered a telephone number registered to the firm told the AP it didn’t own any ships.

A small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz entered Iranian waters and turned off its tracker two days ago, leading the U.S. to suspect Iran seized the vessel amid heightened tensions in the region, an American defense official said Tuesday.

Iran offered no immediate comment on what happened to the Panamanian-flagged oil tanker Riah late Saturday night, though an Emirati official acknowledged the vessel sent out no distress call. Oil tankers previously have been targeted in the wider region amid tensions between the U.S. and Iran over its unraveling nuclear deal with world powers.

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Vad skulle du själv sagt om Irans "tanker" "försvann" i Gibraltar och varken UK, Spanien eller EU kunde förklara vad som hände. Hade du trott att de har noll koll på vad som sker nära inom deras territorialvatten (du försöker blanda bort korten med "Persiska viken"...) ?

Iran's foreign ministry has said Iranian forces have assisted a disabled foreign oil tanker in the Gulf, amid questions over the whereabouts of a Panamanian-flagged ship travelling through the Strait of Hormuz.

Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said Iran's navy "offered help to a foreign tanker with technical failure" in its territorial waters, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.

"Based on international regulations, after receiving their request for help, Iranian forces went to the site and the foreign tanker was towed by an emergency towing vessel toward Iranian waters for repairing process," Mousavi was quoted as saying.