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A tanker sailing roughly 35 km east of Oman has been been hit by an unknown projectile, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency reports.
It comes as US and Iran have continued trading blows over the Gulf today, with early reports claiming civilian infrastructure was hit in the nation under siege.
Donald Trump warned earlier this week that it was about to get “very bad for Iran, explicitly warning the nation’s bridges would be the next target.
A bridge west of Bandar Abbas after Iranian state media accused the US of striking bridges, a railway station and an airport. CENTCOM said it targeted “dozens of Iranian military targets” but did not mention civilian infrastructure.
Earlier Trump delivered a much-hyped primetime address accusing China of election interference.
He said had immediately declassified a trove of documents showing China illegally acquired 220 million US voter files, describing it as an “unprecedented election security nightmare”.
He said other declassified documents related to election machine vulnerabilities, alleged schemes to manufacture fraudulent ballots for Joe Biden, and even efforts by the “deep state” to hide information on China’s election meddling from his intelligence briefings during his first term.
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