Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed it struck a U.S. tanker in the northern Persian Gulf, hours after an Iranian warship was attacked off the coast of Sri Lanka.
Iranian state television reported that the vessel was hit by a missile and caught fire, according to Reuters. The claim has not yet been independently confirmed.
The reported strike came less than 24 hours after a U.S. submarine torpedoed the Iranian naval frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka. (Newswire)