US says video shows Iran was involved in an attack on tanker

US officials have released a video they say show Iran was involved in an attack on an oil tanker near the entrance to the Persian Gulf on Thursday, one of a pair of incidents that have raised tensions between the US and the Islamic Republic over the past day. Watch the video here.
Photo: Tasnim News Agency / Reuters / Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Tasnim News Agency / Reuters / Ritzau Scanpix
BY MARGARET TALEV, BLOOMBERG

An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps patrol boat "was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the Kokuka Courageous," one of two tankers attacked on Thursday, according to Navy Captain Bill Urban of the US Central Command. That was after another mine had already detonated, damaging the ship, the US said.

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