Iran fired on an American drone in the Gulf region

Tensions continue to grow between Iran, its Arab neighbors on the other side of the Persian Gulf and the United States. After the explosive attack of two oil tankers on Thursday, another serious incident occurred yesterday: Iran fired a missile on an American surveillance UAV. Washington accuses Iran of attacking oil tankers: it claims to have used magnetic mines and projected a video showing Iranians removing one of these guns from one of the ships to eliminate the evidence.

Iran yesterday launched a ground-to-air missile on an American drone or drone flying over the Gulf of Oman, but failed, military sources said yesterday afternoon. The Pentagon regularly uses unmanned drones in the region, such as the MQ-9 Reaper, now used to monitor Iranian military patrols in the Gulf. The Reaper is heavily armed, with smart missiles and bombs. CNN reported that the missile launched by the Iranians fell into the water without danger. A US official told the chain that the drone could see the Iranian ships approached attacked tankers. The same official told CNN that in recent days an Iranian missile, shot by Hutu rebels in Yemen, had shot a Reaper in the Red Sea.

President Donald Trump accused Iran of attacking oil tankers and warned Tehran not to take the situation lightly. "Iran has done it," said Trump during a television show, Fox & Friends, during a phone interview with the morning news program. Trump warned the Iranian ayatollahs that the United States could show evidence of the attack, citing video footage released yesterday, in which the Iranians reportedly approached one of the oil tankers and reportedly deactivated a "lapa mine" "before taking it away.

At the same time, it was learned that the Iranians had seized one of the two crews evacuated from the attacked tankers. Shortly after the crews of the two oil tankers participating in the explosions on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman evacuated their ships, the boats that rescued them were surrounded by Iranian army ships and received the bombs. order to transfer the sailors in their custody, according to the newspaper American News quoted by CBS News. One of the civilian rescue ships has finally complied with the Iranian military order. The other one does not have.

Intelligence reports obtained by CBS News include a report from Hyundai Dubai, an oil tanker that came to the rescue when the battered Altair front launched a distress call after being ignited and drifting. The crew of Altair boarded the Hyundai Dubai. But 10 minutes later, the Hyundai Dubai "was surrounded by Iranian army ships asking the captain to deliver the sailors". The captain of the ship contacted his company, who told him to reject the Iranian request, but "said he had no choice but to comply with the Iranian requirements" and handed over Altair Front crew to the Iranians. The other attacked tanker, the Japanese Kokuka Courageous, issued a distress call after suffering an explosion that caused a fire in his engine room. A Dutch ship replied. "The Dutch vessel informed the captain of an unusual object to starboard at the center of the ship.The crew looked overboard and noticed an object that he thought was an explosive. transported methanol and had already undergone an explosion, the captain ordered to leave the ship. "An Iranian army vessel then requested permission from the Dutch to board" to transfer personnel and badist 'crew". But this time, Kokuka's captain did not let the Iranians ship.

The crew of the Dutch ship and the Kokuka could see, while they were moving away from the tanker, a "gray explosive" coming out of the hull. The United States has accused Iran of using "lapa" type mines during this week's attacks, the same magnetic explosive devices used in attacks on four oil companies in the region last month. The devices can be attached to the hull of a ship and cause significant damage. However, they were not powerful enough to break the double hull tankers. The United States said they had a video showing Iranian troops removing an untapped hoard from the Japanese tanker Kokuka.