Tension between Israel & Iran escalates

Israel blames Iran on Tanker attack off the coast of Oman

Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, pictured earlier this month, called for a tough response to the incident. JOHN THYS / AFP - Getty Images

Israel blames Iran for the attack on tanker off Oman coast that killed two

NBC NEWS _July 31, 2021, 3:33 AM PDT

By Reuters

A Briton and a Romanian were killed when an Israeli-managed petroleum product tanker came under attack on Thursday off the coast of Oman, the company said on Friday, in an incident that Israel’s foreign minister blamed on Iran and said deserved a harsh response.

There were varying explanations for what happened to Mercer Street, a Liberian-flagged, Japanese-owned ship, with Israeli-owned Zodiac Maritime describing the incident as “suspected piracy” and a source at the Oman Maritime Security Center as an accident that occurred outside Omani territorial waters.

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Iran and Israel have traded accusations of attacking each other’s vessels in recent months and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said he had told Britain’s foreign secretary of the need for a tough response to the incident in which two crew members, one British and the other Romanian, were killed.

“Iran is not just an Israeli problem, but an exporter of terrorism, destruction, and instability that harms us all. The world must not be silent in the face of Iranian terrorism that also harms freedom of shipping,” Lapid said in a statement.