{"id":3408,"date":"2019-06-15T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T07:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2019-06-15T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T07:13:44","slug":"a-flying-object-not-iranian-mine-struck-tanker-in-middle-east-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/asia\/a-flying-object-not-iranian-mine-struck-tanker-in-middle-east-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Flying Object,&#8217; not Iranian Mine, Struck Tanker in Middle East; Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The president of the Japanese company Kokuka Sangyo, the international shipping firm that operated one of the two oil tankers allegedly attacked by Iranian forces Thursday, said Friday their ship was not the target of a strike ordered by Tehran.<!--more--><\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Company President Yutaka Katada said the damage incurred to the M\/T Kokuka Courageous oil tanker during its voyage through the Gulf of Oman was caused by \u201ca flying object\u201d and not a maritime explosive device. Based on eyewitness accounts from crew members aboard the vessel at the time of the attack, \u201cI do not think there was a time bomb or an object attached to the side of the ship,\u201d Mr. Katada said.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times first reported Mr. Katada\u2019s comments regarding Thursday\u2019s attack. Further, the company chief said there was \u201czero possibility that they were torpedoes\u201d or mines or any other sea-based munition that caused the damage aboard the M\/T Kokuka Courageous.<\/p>\n<p>His statements come hours after British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said London has \u201cno reason not to believe the American assessment\u201d that the M\/T Kokuka Courageous and the Norwegian-flagged M\/T Altair were attacked by Iranian forces.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that Washington had irrefutable evidence of Iranian involvement in the tanker attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping,\u201d Mr. Pompeo said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from U.S. Central Command released a video late Thursday of a Gashti-class Iranian patrol boat with members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) removing an unexploded limpet sea mine from the hull of the Kokuka Courageous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Japanese company Kokuka Sangyo, the international shipping firm that operated one of the two oil tankers allegedly attacked by Iranian forces Thursday, said Friday their ship was not the target of a strike ordered by Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"0"},"categories":[305],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":false,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A &#039;Flying Object,&#039; 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