Iran threatened retaliation on the 20th, alleging that the U.S. breached a truce by firing upon an Iranian commercial ship.
As reported by Reuters, the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Command, responsible for managing Iran’s military activities, stated that the U.S. forces breached the truce by firing upon an Iranian commercial ship in the Gulf of Oman on that day.
Iranian state media stated that the cargo ship was traveling from China to Iran during the early hours of the same day.
A representative from Khatam al-Anbiya cautioned via Iranian state media, “We caution that the military forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will soon react to and take revenge for this ‘armed piracy’ by the U.S. military.”
U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned that the United States had stopped an Iranian freight vessel trying to violate the naval embargo on Iran and placed it under American authority.
Trump posted on the social media platform Truth Social that day, “Today, an Iranian freighter called Touska, roughly 900 feet (around 275 meters) in length and weighing as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to break our naval blockade but was unsuccessful.”
He stated, “The U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyer Spruance intercepted Touska in the Gulf of Oman and issued a valid warning to stop, but the Iranian crew did not follow it. Our naval ship then stopped the vessel by puncturing its engine room.”
The United States has previously compelled approximately 20 Iranian ships, which were trying to depart from Iranian ports and bypass the U.S. embargo, to return, but this marks the first documented instance where force was applied, as reported by the U.S. newspaper Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
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