{"id":18527,"date":"2021-08-03T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T08:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=18527"},"modified":"2021-08-03T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T08:36:43","slug":"charges-against-iran-in-tanker-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=18527","title":{"rendered":"Charges Against Iran in Tanker Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran warns that it will respond to threats to its security. This was stated by a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran Saeed Khatibzadeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; August 03, 2021 \u2013<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?cat=13\">International News<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Iran will not hesitate to defend its security and national interests, and will respond quickly and forcefully to any risky steps,&#8221; Khatibzadeh said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His statement came after London recalled its ambassador to Iran over an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=16052\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"16052\">attack <\/a>on a commercial ship off the coast of Oman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Kingdom, as well as the United States and Israel, have accused Iran of involvement in a drone attack on a tanker that killed two people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident, which damaged the Liberian-flagged Mercer Street tanker on July 27, was the first attack with human casualties on commercial shipping in the region, which high-ranking officials have clearly linked to rising tensions with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17040\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17040\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzade called &#8220;baseless&#8221; accusations of his country&#8217;s involvement in the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Read Also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17040\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17040\">Iran Declares Fears of Uranium Metal Production Are \u201cSuperfluous\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Source<\/span>: <span style=\"color:#fae700\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ukrgate<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran warns that it will respond to threats to its security. This was stated by a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran Saeed Khatibzadeh. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; August 03, 2021 \u2013 International News &#8220;Iran will not hesitate to defend its security and national interests, and will respond quickly and forcefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7503,1613,528,2845,2399,1036,1854],"class_list":["post-18527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-attack","tag-great-britain","tag-iran","tag-tanker","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18529,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527\/revisions\/18529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}