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This is a breaking News, The British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations,
initially warned ships Tuesday that ``an incident is currently underway`` off the coast of Fujairah.
Hours later, they said the incident was a ``potential hijack.''
An Oman Royal Air Force Airbus C-295MPA, a maritime patrol aircraft, was flying over
the area where the ships were, according to data from Flight Radar 24 dot com.
A group of eight or nine armed individuals, are believed to have boarded the vessel, named
Asphalt Princess, the security source told Sky News.
"It was an unauthorized boarding in the Gulf of Oman," the security source said.
It comes as the Associated Press reported that, at least four vessels sent out warnings
saying, they had lost control of their steering.
Oil tankers called Queen Ematha, Golden Brilliant, Jag Pooja and Abyss, all reported through
their Automatic Identification System trackers they were "not under command", according to
MarineTraffic dot com.
The event comes just days after a drone struck an oil tanker, linked to an Israeli billionaire
off the coast of Oman, killing two crew members.
The West blamed Iran for the attack, which marked the first known assault to have killed
civilians, in the years long shadow war, targeting commercial vessels in the region.
Iran denied playing any role in the incident, though Tehran and its allied militias have
used similar ``suicide'' drones, in attacks previously.
Tension in the Middle east is rising, British commanders arrived in the Middle East over
the weekend, to draw up plans for a UK special forces strike mission against a terror team,
that attacked an Israeli-operated tanker last week, the UK Daily Mirror reported Today.
The paper added that, the joint British American force will conduct a “kill or capture”
manhunt.
Things are heating up as yesterday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, vowed a “collective
response” to Iran, which had earlier in the day warned adversaries against reprisals,
after it was blamed for an attack, on an Israeli-linked oil tanker.
“We are in very close contact, in coordination, with the United Kingdom, Israel, Romania and
other countries.
And there will be a collective response,” Blinken told reporters at a press appearance
at the State Department.
He repeated that the United States had concluded, that Iran was behind the drone attack off
the coast of Oman, on the MT Mercer Street, which is managed by prominent Israeli billionaire,
Eyal Ofer.
Earlier on Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued his own condemnation,
of the drone attack killing British national.
On Monday evening, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Israel must act immediately, against
Tehran over the drone strike.
The recent attack marked the first known fatal attack, after years of assaults on commercial
shipping in the region, linked to tensions between Israel and Iran over the tattered
nuclear deal.
The statements from the concerned shows, that the response of the israeli ship attack that
killed 2 people, is inevitable, and things could get worse.
On the other hand, Iran is strengthening its air defence by deploying anti aircraft missiles
on its border, and warned to act against any misadventure by Israel and its allies.
Iran removes its air defense system to Bushehr Province, as a precaution of a possible attack.
Al-Qabas Newspaper announced, on Monday, that Iran has transferred the Russian S-300 air
defense system to Bushehr Province, in the south of the country, as a preparation for
any possible air strikes, against Iran’s sensitive sites.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, Iran will respond promptly to any
threat against its security.
The announcement came after the United States, Israel, and Britain blamed Tehran for the
attack on an Israeli- tanker off the coast of Oman in which two crew members were killed.
However, an unnamed Iranian official told the country's Nournews news agency earlier
that, Tehran considered "the threats of Western officials and the Zionist regime (Israel),
to be more of a propaganda gesture".
"And Washington and London will be directly responsible for the consequences," the official
told Nournews, which is close to Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
The environment in the middle east is very tense at the moment, and any small incident,
could spark a massive war in the region.
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