Iran claimed on Saturday that it had attacked an oil tanker belonging to the US in the Strait of Hormuz. Hormuz is an important sea corridor of Iran, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil supply passes.
According to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the tanker named ‘Louis P’ was warned by the Iranian Navy not to enter the waterway and was attacked with a suicide drone after it ignored the warning.
On 28 February, the US and Israel conducted joint airstrikes on Iran in a major military operation, codenamed by the US as ‘Operation Epic Fury’ and by Israel as ‘Operation Roaring Lion’. Iran retaliated by attacking US military bases in various countries in the Middle East, including the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Iran codenamed its retaliatory attack ‘Operation True Promise IV’.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said, “This operation against the American-Zionist terrorist bases and the American terrorist base in the heart of the occupied territories began with a big bang under the holy codename ‘Ya Hassan Ibn Ali (Peace be upon him)’.”
Earlier, US President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that Iran has lost to its Middle East neighbors for the first time in 1,000 years. This came as Iranian President Massoud Pejeshkian apologized for attacking Gulf countries amid their ongoing war with the US and Israel.
Trump said in his social media post that today he will hit Iran very hard. Total destruction and certain death are being seriously considered.