Blaze starts around 2:25 a.m. And firefighters tried to hold him back, said Fars. The ship sank near Jask Iran’s port, around 1,270 kilometers (790 miles) southeast Tehran in Oman’s Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
The largest warship in the Iranian Navy caught fire and then ducked on Wednesday in Oman’s Gulf in an unclear state, the semiophicial news agency reported.
JARJA and news institutions Tasnim said efforts failed to save the support of Kharg warships, named after the island which functions as the main oil terminal for Iran.
Blaze starts around 2:25 a.m. And firefighters tried to hold him back, said Fars. The ship sank near Jask Iran’s port, around 1,270 kilometers (790 miles) southeast Tehran in Oman’s Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
The photos circulated on Iran’s social media The sailors wore a life jacket that evacuated the vessel when the fire burned behind them. State TV and semofficial news institutions refer to Kharg as “training vessels.” Fars published a thick video, black smoke rose from the ship early Wednesday morning.
Satellite photos of Planet Labs Inc. Analyzed by the Associated Press showed Kharg to West Jask on Tuesday. Satellite from the Ocean Administration and US National Atmospheric that tracks fire from space detects fire at Jask location which starts right before the fire time reported by Fara.
Kharg served as one of several ships in the Iranian Navy who was able to provide charging in the sea to other ships. It can also lift heavy cargo and serve as a launch point for helicopters. The warship, was built in the UK and was launched in 1977, entering the Iranian Navy in 1984 after a long negotiation that followed the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution.
The Iranian Navy usually handles patrols in the Gulf of Oman and a wider ocean, while the country’s paramilitary revolutionary guards operate in more superficial waters from the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. However, in recent months, the Navy launched a slightly larger commercial tanker called Macran was converted to serve the same function as Kharg.
Iranian officials do not offer fires on Kharg. However, he came after a series of mysterious explosions that began in 2019 targeting ships in Oman’s Bay. The US Navy then accused Iran of targeting ships with limpet mines, time explosives are usually attached by divers to the hull of the ship.
Iran denied targeting ships, even though the US naval record showed a member of the revolutionary guard removing one limpet mine that did not explode from a ship. The incident came in the midst of increasing tensions between the US and Iran after later – President Donald Trump unilaterally attracted America from the Tehran nuclear agreement with the world’s power.
In April, an Iranian ship named MV Saviz was believed to be a guard base and anchored for years in the Yemenean Red Sea targeted in an attack suspected of being carried out by Israel. It rises the shadow war throughout the year in the middle waters between the two countries.