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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Tehran, March 7 (Xinhua) — An Iranian military spokesman said on Saturday that "enemy ships" entering the Persian Gulf "will end up at the bottom" of the waterway. Several media outlets reported this.
Meanwhile, according to a statement published on the official news portal Sepah News, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) struck a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the central Persian Gulf, which they said was a US asset.
In a statement, the IRGC identified the tanker as the Louise P, saying it was hit by a drone around midday on Saturday.
It also said that the IRGC had previously declared all Israeli and American assets in the West Asian region to be legitimate targets for the Iranian army.
Earlier in the day, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported that the IRGC struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday morning.
According to the agency, the rogue tanker, sailing under the trade name Prima, was hit by a drone after ignoring repeated warnings from the IRGC Navy to ban passage through the Strait of Hormuz for security reasons. –0–
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