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[Anchor] The U.S. Navy seized a sanctioned vessel bound for Iran after firing on it, officials said. Iran immediately claimed it retaliated by striking a U.S. warship with drones, pushing tensions between Washington and Tehran to a peak as a temporary cease-fire nears its end. This is Kang Eun-na-rae. [Reporter] The six-day track of the large freighter Tuska shows it departed China, passed Malaysia and headed toward Iran. Instead of reaching its reported destination of Bandar Abbas, the ship stopped in the middle of the Gulf of Oman. On the 19th local time, the U.S. destroyer Spruance hailed the Tuska: “Cargo ship Tuska. Cargo ship Tuska. Evacuate the engine room. Evacuate the engine room. We are prepared to fire to neutralize your vessel.” After six hours of warnings and repeated attempts to breach the blockade, the U.S. Navy opened fire. Former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that U.S. forces had put a hole in the engine room and stopped the ship; U.S. Central Command later confirmed the seizure. CENTCOM said the Tuska was on the U.S. Treasury Department sanctions list and that officials are now inspecting its cargo. Since the U.S. imposed the maritime blockade, this is the first time American forces have used force to seize an Iran-linked vessel, CENTCOM said. Iran immediately pushed back. The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Military Command claimed it struck a U.S. warship with drones in retaliation. Iran’s Joint Command warned it will continue military responses if what it called U.S. “piracy” continues. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s parliament and the country’s lead negotiator, said on the 19th, “Control of the Strait is in our hands.” The standoff has escalated at the gateway to the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint through which roughly one-fifth of global oil shipments pass. This is Kang Eun-na-rae for Yonhap News TV. [Image source: MarineTraffic] [News Review] #UnitedStates #Iran #War #StraitOfHormuz #Malaysia #SriLanka #IndianOcean #GulfOfOman #KlangPort #Tuska Yonhap News TV story tips and inquiries: KakaoTalk/Line jebo23. Kang Eun-na-rae (rae@yna.co.kr)
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