Iran suspected of being behind missile that hit Israeli vessel

An unnamed senior Israeli security official suggests that a missile that hit a container ship owned by an Israeli company may have fired by Iran.
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Amos Yadlin, a retired Israeli general and outgoing head of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, says apparent Iranian attacks on Israeli companies' ships are sending Israel a message to stop attacking Iranian commercial vessels. Here, Yadlin attends a session at the Manama Dialogue security conference in the Bahraini capital on Dec. 5, 2020. - MAZEN MAHDI/AFP via Getty Images
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The Israeli-owned container ship LORI was hit by a missile early March 25 in the Arabian Sea. The missile was reported to have been small and to have apparently caused little damage to the body of the vessel, with no injuries registered. Blame was immediately cast on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The Liberian-flagged ship had departed Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on March 21, heading for the port of Mundra on India’s west coast, when it was struck by the missile. The vessel's owners — XT Management — decided that the LORI would stay on course, with a more extensive inspection of the damage to take place upon arrival in India.

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