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Iran ‘almost certainly’ behind attack on ships off UAE: Bolton
ABU DHABI, May 29, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – US National Security Advisor John
Bolton said Wednesday Iran was “almost certainly” behind attacks on ships off
the UAE coast earlier this month.
The four ships, including two Saudi tankers, were attacked by “naval mines
almost certainly from Iran”, Bolton told a press conference in the United
Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi.
US experts are part of a five-nation team that is investigating the May 12
attacks that damaged the four vessels in the Sea of Oman off the UAE emirate
of Fujairah.
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