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🚨 🇮🇶 Tanker reported on fire near Basra as 🇮🇷 Iran says it downed a US drone (unconfirmed)
🚨 🇮🇶 Tanker reported on fire near Basra as 🇮🇷 Iran says it downed a US drone (unconfirmed)
- 🇮🇶 A tanker is said to be on fire after a reported attack near Iraq's Basra port, the hub for most of Iraq's crude exports; newswires carried an Iranian report of an explosion aboard a vessel off Iraq at (unconfirmed, no official or maritime security statement yet)
- 🇮🇷 Iran's army says it shot down a US drone flying over southern Iran (Iranian claim, unconfirmed by the US)
FO view: Fresh incidents in the northern Gulf cut across this afternoon's easing on the Tehran talks, and Iran's line on the nuclear file limits how far de-escalation can go.
Not investment advice.