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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps posted a video Thursday on its Telegram social media channel purportedly showing the aftermath of its attack the previous day on a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. According to the description provided by the IRGC, the video "confirms that at least one projectile struck the violating vessel on Wednesday morning." Oman's navy said Wednesday that it had come to the rescue of the vessel's crew, one of whom was killed in the attack on the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged bulk carrier Cape Dao. Oman said 27 crew members were evacuated from the stricken ship. The strike on a cargo vessel was first reported earlier Wednesday by the U.K. navy's Maritime Trade Operations center. In its social media post Thursday, the IRGC said the ship was targeted for "transiting the Strait of Hormuz along an unauthorized and unsafe route." Iran has demanded for weeks that all ships wishing to transit the strait seek permission from its military, rejecting repeated U.S. assertions that a southern route through the vital shipping channel, close to Oman's coast, is safe and available.
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps posted a video Thursday on its Telegram social media channel purportedly showing the aftermath of its attack the previous day on a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. According to the description provided by the IRGC, the video "confirms that at least one projectile struck the violating vessel on Wednesday morning." Oman's navy said Wednesday that it had come to the rescue of the vessel's crew, one of whom was killed in the attack on the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged bulk carrier Cape Dao. Oman said 27 crew members were evacuated from the stricken ship. The strike on a cargo vessel was first reported earlier Wednesday by the U.K. navy's Maritime Trade Operations center. In its social media post Thursday, the IRGC said the ship was targeted for "transiting the Strait of Hormuz along an unauthorized and unsafe route." Iran has demanded for weeks that all ships wishing to transit the strait seek permission from its military, rejecting repeated U.S. assertions that a southern route through the vital shipping channel, close to Oman's coast, is safe and available.
