Munro Anderson

Is the Israel Iran conflict being played out using commercial vessels?

Reports on the morning of 24th April 2021 from the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) indicated that an explosion had occurred on a tanker causing the death of at least 3 crew. The report was largely framed as a suspected ‘drone attack’, with a number of media outlets suggesting this incident was a further evolution in the recent Israeli and Iranian ‘tit-for-tat’ attacks on each other’s commercial..