A Romanian ship captain and a British chief security officer died on 29 July 2021 off the coast of Oman while working aboard the Japanese-owned merchant tanker Mercer Street.
The cause of the incident, a ‘suicide drone’ attack, was attributed by the UK, the US and Israeli governments to the Iranian regime as part of the “shadow war” at sea conducted by Tehran and Tel-Aviv in the last few years. Suicide drones are remotely-controlled UAVs that self-detonate when reaching their target. Their use...
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