Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they attacked two U.S. ships, eight oil tankers and 10 other vessels, in retaliation for U.S. strikes on five Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf yesterday.

"In response to the aggression of U.S. military forces that attacked five Iranian oil tankers in the Persian Gulf," reads a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency, "the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy targeted two U.S. ships and eight oil tankers, inflicting considerable damage. Ten other vessels were also hit."

(Unioneonline)

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