US Military Says It Sank Iran-linked Vessel Monitoring US Warship in Gulf of Oman on Oct. 6

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The U.S. military belatedly revealed on the 14th (local time) that it sank an Iran-linked vessel that had been conducting surveillance on a U.S. Navy ship in the Gulf of Oman on the 6th.

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees the Middle East region, stated via X (formerly Twitter) that "on October 6, U.S. forces sank an Iran-linked wooden vessel that was monitoring and targeting a U.S. Navy ship in the Gulf of Oman."

CENTCOM stated that the crew members were safely evacuated before the vessel was sunk, and procedures for their repatriation are currently underway.

However, it did not provide specific details regarding the nationalities of the crew members or the exact nature of the vessel's ties to Iran.

CENTCOM criticized that "over the past seven months, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has continued activities indiscriminately targeting not only U.S. Navy warships but also thousands of civilian mariners transiting regional waters."

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