Iran dismisses claim tanker shot by missile
TEHRAN – Iran has dismissed as “sheer lie” the claim that the oil tanker operated by the National Iranian Tanker Company has been hit by a rocket. On Monday, Al Arabiya, a Saudi-owned television news channel, claimed the tanker had been shot as it was transferring cargo to North Korea. “The oil tanker was headed to North Korea and not South Korea, which prompted the Americans to block it and sink the ship,” the Saudi news outlet said. Denying the allegation, Ali Rabiee, labor minister and President Rouhani’s special envoy on the tanker ...
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