An American defense official denied a report that the United States military sunk an Iranian spy ship in the Red Sea, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.
Saudi Arabian media outlet Al-Hadath reported that the U.S. had sunk the Iranian reconnaissance ship Zagros, which specializes in signal intelligence, in a coordinated attack with Israel's bombing of Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Not so, said the U.S. defense official, adding, Zagros "is pier side in Bandar Abbas" in Iran, the Examiner reported. The Zag urasian Times.Al-Hadath later retracted its report, according to Israeli Ynet News.The errant report comes amid heightened tensions in the region. The U.S. military continues to pound Houthi targets in Yemen as they claimed for a third time to have targeted the USS Harry S. Truman carrier group with missiles and drones. (Read more)
