Africa-Press – Lesotho. Iran’s foreign ministry has dismissed Washington’s claims that a drone attack targeting a tanker off the coast of India was “fired from Iran” as “worthless”, AFP reports.
Saturday’s targeting of a Japanese-owned chemical tanker came amid a flurry of drone and missile attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
The Pentagon later accused Tehran of the attack. “We declare these claims as completely rejected and worthless,” foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani said when asked about the US accusations.
“Such claims are aimed at projecting, distracting public attention, and covering up for the full support of the American government for the crimes of the Zionist regime (Israel) in Gaza,” he added.
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