Iran has reportedly said the ‘suicide drone’ attack on an oil tanker, which killed two people, was in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike on a military airport in Syria.
Two members of the crew, a Briton and a Romanian, died on Thursday off the coast of Oman when a MV Mercer Street oil tanker was attacked by an armed drone believed to be operated by Iran.
Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid blamed ‘Iranian terrorism’ for the attack, while a US official said the use of a ‘suicide drone’ raised the possibility a government was behind the incident.
