Unknown assailants in a speedboat shot at a merchant vessel as it sailed through the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman on Sunday, the NATO Shipping Centre (NSC) said.
The unidentified merchant ship reported being shot at twice from close range from a speedboat carrying six people armed with machine guns, on Sunday morning. It repelled the attack with hoses and the vessel and crew are safe, NSC said. ...
The attack happened on the Gulf of Oman side of the Strait of Hormuz, about 90 minutes after a different merchant ship was approached by two speedboats with crews wearing military clothing, NATO said. ...
"After a while the skiffs turned away to Iranian coast."
That certainly sounds like an Iranian Revolutionary Guard operation. Although Iran is only mentioned as the direction the first approaching ships turned to.
Did Iran ordering the attack and approach? Or did the Revolutionary Guards?
And did Russia request a little heightened tension in the Persian Gulf as a favor? Perhaps to remind us that if we are involved in one war in Europe that another could break out in the Persian Gulf?
Anyway. Interesting.
