Iran warns of response if security threatened after ship attack: TV

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Iran will respond promptly to any threat against its security, the foreign ministry said on Monday (Aug 2), after the United States, Israel and ...

The United States and Britain said on Sunday they would work with their allies to respond to the attack on the Mercer Street, a Liberian-flagged, Japanese-owned petroleum product tanker managed by Israeli-owned Zodiac Maritime.

The US Navy, which was escorting the tanker with the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, said on Saturday early indications"clearly pointed" to a drone attack. "Israel has a variety of tools and options to defend its citizens, and we will settle the score with anyone who tries to harm us at the time and place and in the way that suits us and our security," Gantz told the Israeli parliament.

"And Washington and London will be directly responsible for the consequences," the official told Nournews, which is close to Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

 

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