The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, has issued a key updates on nuclear facilities in Iran following the beginning of Operation Epic Fury. One mariner has died on a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker after it was struck by a bomb-carrying drone boat in the Gulf of Oman on Monday, Oman said.
The dead crew member was from India, reports state-run Oman News Agency. The attack occurred off the coast of Muscat, the sultanate’s capital with the vessel being identified as the MKD VYOM.Iran has been threatening vessels approaching the Strait of Hormuz, located at the tip of a peninsula it is situated between Iran and Oman’s Musandam exclave.
The oil transit hotspot is “one of the world’s most important oil chokepoints", according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Iran is believed to have launched multiple attacks at the war in the Mideast continues after Israel and the United States started a major airstrike campaign targeting the Islamic Republic.
