Iranian oil tankers flee crude loading site amid fears of Israeli attack
US President Joe Biden was asked Thursday whether he would support Israel attacking Iranian oil infrastructure, and in off-the-cuff remarks, he said his administration was “discussing” it.
Oil tankers waiting close to Iran’s biggest crude loading facility have left the area empty-handed since Tehran fired 181 ballistic missiles at Israel on Monday, amid vows from Israel to respond.
There has been speculation that Israel may respond to Iran in the coming days by attacking its oil assets, in retaliation for the Iranian missile salvo that Tehran said was in response to Israel’s "aggressive acts," including the assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week alongside a senior figure in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The highly choreographed attack caused no casualties in Israel, apart from two injuries in Tel Aviv. A 38-year-old Palestinian man was killed in Jericho in the occupied West Bank, the city's mayor said.
US President Joe Biden was asked Thursday whether he would support Israel attacking Iranian oil infrastructure. In off-the-cuff remarks, Biden said that his administration was “discussing” it.
TankerTrackers.com Inc., a tracking firm that monitors ships using satellite data, wrote on X on Thursday that some Iranian tankers had moved away from the country’s biggest crude loading facility.
