At the time of the U.S. attack and seizure of the Iranian vessel Touska on April 19, the Iranians warned of immediate retaliation. “The aggressive United States, by violating the ceasefire and engaging in maritime banditry, attacked one of Iran’s commercial ships in the waters of the Sea of Oman by opening fire at it, disabling its navigation system, and deploying a number of its terrorist marines onto the deck of the vessel,” Ebrahim Zolfaqari, the spokesman for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters said, reported Tasnim News.
“We caution that the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will soon respond to and retaliate for this act of piracy and armed aggression by the U.S. military,” he added.
