The Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Defense Department, has claimed that the drone which attacked a tanker on Saturday near Gujarat’s Porbandar coast in the Arabian Sea was fired from Iran.
The Pentagon said in a statement on Sunday that the attack occurred around 10 a.m. local time. However, there were no casualties on the Japanese-owned chemical ship.
The fire was soon extinguished. “The attack was carried out by a unilateral strike drone from Iran,” a Pentagon spokesman told Reuters news agency.
The attack comes amid a wave of drone and missile attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Red Sea shipping lanes since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7. He had shown solidarity with Gaza.
The statement said that the drone attack took place 200 nautical miles (about 370 kilometers) from the Indian coast. It was also said that no US Navy ship was nearby.
It is the first time the Pentagon has accused Iran-backed Hamas of directly targeting Israeli ships since the start of the war.
The Pentagon statement said the ship, MV Chem Pluto, was flying the Liberian flag. It is operated by a Dutch entity. Although the owner of the ship is a Japanese company.
The Indian Navy said that when it was asked for help, it responded. “A plane was sent and it landed above the ship,” a Navy official said.
Ensured the safety of the ship and its crew. An Indian Navy warship has also been sent to provide assistance as required.”
Let us tell you that no one has yet taken responsibility for this drain attack.