The American ship shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Ormuzian

The US Navy ship destroyed the Iranian drone in the Strait of the Iranian drone approaching it. According to Reuters, US President Donald Trump said this.

According to him, the drone is shot down by the USS Boxer with the airborne ship.

Earlier on Thursday, the naval forces of the Islamic Revolution Corps announced the seizure of a foreign oil tanker with 12 people on board on charges of smuggling 1 million tons of Iranian gasoline. Which country belongs to the ship is not specified. The authorities said that the tanker used 1 million tons of Iranian gasoline for smuggling. This happened against the backdrop of an exacerbation of the situation in the Ormuzian Strait.

In early July, Gibraltar’s authorities detained the Iranian super tanker Grace 1, accusing the team of illegal oil transportation to Syria. In response to this in Tehran, they threatened to capture the British tanker, calling the actions of the Western forces illegal and pirate.

On July 16, the Riah oil tanker, which was walking from the UAE under the flag of Panama, ceased to apply in the Ormuz Strait.

The Insider talked with Iranian Karine Gevorgyan about whether these cases could be associated and why Iran recently began to appear in incidents with hydrocarbons.