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🚨 🇮🇷 Limpet mines disable a tanker in Hormuz in a new kind of attack, as 🇺🇸 CENTCOM rejects an IRGC drone claim
🚨 🇮🇷 Limpet mines disable a tanker in Hormuz in a new kind of attack, as 🇺🇸 CENTCOM rejects an IRGC drone claim
- 🇮🇷 A Panama-flagged tanker carrying 27 Indian crew was disabled in the Strait of Hormuz after two limpet mines were attached to its hull from a small boat, causing an engine-room fire. The crew is safe, according to the UK maritime security agency, and security sources describe it as the first known limpet mine attack of the war; press reports blame Iranian forces, which is not officially confirmed (newswires, first reported )
- 🇺🇸 US Central Command said an IRGC claim that it destroyed a US military sea drone in the Strait of Hormuz is false (newswires, )
FO view: A switch to mines placed by hand on passing ships makes Hormuz harder to police and keeps the war-risk premium in Brent, which is heading for a big monthly gain, firmly in place.
Not investment advice.