The World Is Getting Sucked Into U.S.-Iran Tensions
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for the latest tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman.
Updated at 3:12 p.m. ET on June 13, 2019.
More ships burned in the Gulf of Oman today, hours after a missile hit a Saudi airport and weeks after explosions hit four other vessels in the region. As threats escalate between the United States and Iran, multiple other countries—whose tankers traverse the strategic waterways, whose oil supplies depend on safe navigation, and whose people and infrastructure are vulnerable to rockets from Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels—are getting sucked into the morass.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this afternoon blamed Iran for the shipping attacks. “No proxy group operating in
