Iran fires a missile at a ship owned by Israel near the UAE – reported

Iran fires a missile at a ship owned by Israel near the UAE – reported

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An Israeli ship called the Hyperion and is owned by an Israeli company, was reportedly attacked in Lebanon near the banks of the Fujairah emirate in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday. The attack came a day after Iran promised to avenge the explosion at its nuclear facility in Natanz, which blamed Israel.

Data available on MarineTraffic.com showed that the Hyperion, a vehicle carrier sailing under the flag of the Bahamas, was stopped off the coast of Fujairah. Arab media reports said the ship was hit by an Iranian missile.

The vessel is linked to the Israeli Ray Shipping company, the same company that owns a vessel hit by a suspected Iranian attack in February.

Israeli media reported that the attack was probably carried out with a missile or drone and that the vessel caused only minor damage.

The IDF declined to comment on the reports. Despite growing tensions with Iran and a security cabinet meeting scheduled for next week, Advocate General Avi Mandelblit, according to Israeli media, banned the security cabinet from meeting until a justice minister is appointed.
The attack comes days after a suspected Israeli attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility and exactly a week after the Iranian Saviz ship was damaged in alleged Israeli attack in the Red Sea.

It also comes after two strikes against vessels in Israel in the region and reports of dozens of earlier strikes that Israel carried out against Iran in places ranging from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf.

Late last month, an Iranian missile was allegedly shot down on an Israeli ship between India and Oman, hitting and damaging it. In February, Iran allegedly attacked the Israeli-owned cargo plane MV Helios Ray, which was damaged by an explosion in the Gulf of Oman.

According to reports, Israel informed the US that they were responsible for the attack on the Iranian cargo ship that was with the Islamic Revolutionary Corps last week.

A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the Saviz was slightly damaged in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti at around 06:00 on Tuesday due to an explosion and added that the cause is being investigated.

The United States Naval Institute reported last year that the Saviz, although officially listed as a merchant ship, it was probably a covered IRGC forward base. Tasnim confirmed this, saying that the ship had been standing in the Red Sea in recent years to support Iranian commandos escorting commercial vessels.

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