‘US oil tanker currently on fire’: Iran says it hit American ship in Gulf with missile

Iran has reportedly struck an oil tanker in the Gulf, which belonged to the United States, Euro News reported. The strike was conducted through a missile which was fired on Thursday, 5 March, in the latest Iranian attack on the region’s energy infrastructure. There was no immediate confirmation of the incident or of a similar attack that Iran claimed earlier this week.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement that the ship was hit by a missile “in the north of the Persian Gulf” and “is currently on fire”.