Tehran 0
14 June 2019

A day after explosions hit two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, Iran's diplomatic spokesperson insisted that "Iran is responsible for ensuring the security of the Strait of Hormuz, and we showed this by rushing to save the sailors of the incident-hit vessels in the shortest time possible". He added that "pinning the blame on Iran for the suspicious and regrettable incident for the oil tankers seems to be the easiest and most simplistic thing Mr Pompeo and other U.S. statesmen could do".

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