Iran responded to Netanyahu's statement saying it “strongly rejected” the claim that it was behind the attack.
Over the weekend, Israel’s defense minister and army chief had both indicated they held Iran responsible for what they said was an attack on the vessel.ĭownload the NBC News app for breaking news and politics The vessel had discharged cars at various ports in the Persian Gulf before the explosion forced it to reverse course. It remains unclear what caused Friday's blast on the Helios Ray. Tehran has denied the accusations that it was behind the limpet mine attacks.
The Gulf of Oman leads through the narrow Strait of Hormuz, a vital passage for the world’s oil supplies.
military accused Iran of attacking several oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman with limpet mines, designed to be attached magnetically to a ship’s hull.
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Iran also has blamed Israel for a recent series of attacks, including a mysterious explosion last summer that destroyed an advanced centrifuge assembly plant at its Natanz nuclear facility and the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top Iranian scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program two decades ago.The explosion on the Israeli-owned ship last week recalled the tense summer of 2019, when the U.S. The Sunday report speculated the ship may have been “trapped in an ambush by a branch of resistance axis,” referring to Iranian proxies in the region. The country’s hard-line Kayhan daily, whose editor-in-chief was appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, alleged the Helios Ray was “possibly” on an “espionage” mission in the region, without offering any evidence to support the claim. Iranian authorities have not publicly commented on the ship. Israeli ambassador to the US, Gilad Erdan, told Israel’s Army Radio on Sunday that “it was no secret that the Iranians are trying to harm Israeli targets” and alleged the explosion on the ship bore the hallmarks of other Iranian attacks. The Israeli-owned cargo docked in Dubai’s port for repairs Sunday “Tensions between Israel and Iran remain fraught, especially in light of increased signs of rapprochement between Iran and the Biden administration,” Dryad said. “We have no idea if this is an incident that is part of the tensions between Iran and the United States and if it has to do with the fact that the owner of the ship is Israeli.”ĭryad Global suggested Iran could be behind the blast, noting the incident comes amid heightened tensions between Israel and the Islamic republic. “But it is not yet clear to us whether it was caused by missile fire or mines attached to the ship,” he added. It did cause “two holes about a meter and a half (five feet) in diameter” in damage, he said, without elaborating. Rami Ungar, an Israeli businessman who owns the Helios Ray, told Kan on Friday that the explosion did not cause any casualties among the crew or damage to the engine. “This is an initial assessment that takes into account the proximity (with Iran) and the context” in which the blast occurred, he added. On February 26, 2021, numerous news outlets reported that MV HELIOS RAY, a Bahamas-flagged vehicle carrier, sustained an external hull explosion in the Gulf. The vehicle-carrier ship is owned by a Tel-Aviv based company called Ray Shipping through a company registered in the Isle of Man, according to a U.N. defence official said the blast left holes in both sides of the vessel's hull. (Kamran Jebreili/AP) An Israeli-owned cargo ship that. The ship continued her sailing but several hours later turned back, and as of 1200 UTC Feb 26, is heading towards Persian Gulf. An Israeli-owned ship, the MV HELIOS RAY, was hit by an explosion in the Gulf of Oman overnight Thursday and a U.S. The Israeli-owned cargo ship, MV Helios Ray, sits docked in port after arriving earlier in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 28, 2021. Car carrier HELIOS RAY reportedly suffered explosion on board in Gulf of Oman at night Feb 25, while en route from Dammam Saudi Arabia to Singapore. “The location of the vessel, relatively close to Iran at the time, raises the belief that Iran was responsible, but it must still be verified,” Gantz told Israeli state television Kan. 26, 2021 at 13:28 by Mikhail Voytenko in Maritime Security. The MV Helios Ray, a vehicle carrier, was travelling from the Saudi port of Dammam to Singapore when the blast occurred on Thursday, according to the Dryad Global maritime security group. JERUSALEM-Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz said on Saturday his “initial assessment” was that Iran was responsible for an explosion on an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman overnight between Thursday and Friday.
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