Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami says Iran hit over a dozen Israeli vessels after the regime targeted Iranian oil tankers in international waters, Press TV reports.
“They (Israelis) hit 14 of our ships in order to choke off the export of crude oil. Initially, we did not know which party was responsible for the attacks as they were being conducted mysteriously. Finally, we discovered that the Zionist regime was accountable for them and 12 of their ships were hit.
“Once their fifth ship was hit, they held up their hands and called for the cessation of the ship war,” Salami said on Saturday during a visit by President Masoud Pezeshkian to Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters in the capital Tehran.
He said when the UK seized an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar, "we took the Stena Impero and they surrendered", referring to the IRGC's confiscation of the British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in 2019.
"They took two ships from us in Greece, we took two ships from them and finally they surrendered," Salami said, referring to Iran's retaliation in May 2022 after the US seizure of an Iranian tanker off the Greek coast.
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