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##### ***15 Vessels Struck or Sank***– Iran launches largest attack- Iran captures US Unmanned Sub- reverse engineering on the way- Oil hits more than 100.00 a barrel

[**France24.com**](https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260909-iran-and-us-strike-tankers-in-biggest-shipping-attack-since-war-began)

> **Iran and the US on Wednesday traded their biggest wave of attacks on shipping since the war began, with Iran saying it struck 10 vessels near the Strait of Hormuz after US forces sank five Iranian oil tankers. Brent crude oil surged above $100 a barrel as fears grew over global energy supplies.**
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> **Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the US sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war.**
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> **The attacks sent the price of oil surging, with benchmark Brent crude futures breaching $100 a barrel for the first time since July. At least one seafarer aboard a tanker was reported killed and another listed as missing.**
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> **Iran also said it had fired ballistic missiles at a base used by US forces in Jordan. Attacks by both sides since the end of August have shattered a month of relative calm, with the US and Iran hitting military, shipping and energy assets.**
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> **The Revolutionary Guards said they would sharply escalate their response to any further attacks, hitting 20 targets if the enemy struck two or three. Iran would soon release maps of a new, enlarged off-limits zone at sea that would extend as far as Chabahar on the far reaches of Iran’s coast near Pakistan, the Guards said.**
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> **Recent days have also seen an escalation in fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen, a second theatre of war that threatens global energy supplies from the Middle East.**

##### Iranian tankers ablaze

> The **Americans said they destroyed five Iranian oil tankers overnight,** releasing video of ships ablaze before they sank.
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> The US military’s **Central Command called its attacks a response to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeting a US Navy warship twice with ballistic missiles over the previous two days.** No Americans were harmed, the US said.
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> **Washington has announced a new policy of attacking Iranian tankers in retaliation for fire that threatens its warships, and says it has hit 10 so far over the past week.**
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> ***“Iran continues to try to hit US naval ships, and for every time they do that or try to do that, they’re going to lose tankers,”*** US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters during a visit to Colombia.

**Iran said it fired on two US ships and eight tankers in response.**

> *One seafarer was killed aboard the oil products tanker Hercules Star while at anchorage off Dubai and another crew member was missing, the vessel’s charterer, Peninsula, said. Maritime security sources said it may have been hit by a drone.*
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> **The British maritime security agency UKMTO described a vessel in the vicinity that was listing, possibly taking on water after being struck by a projectile.** Reuters could not immediately determine whether this referred to the same ship.
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> **Two Iraqi port officials said a tanker carrying 2 million barrels of fuel oil, the New Andros, had caught fire after being struck by a drone in Iraqi waters.** There were no reports of casualties among the 22 crew.
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> The UKMTO said it had **received reports of several merchant ships struck by disabling fire in the northern Gulf and Gulf of Oman, on either side of the strait.**
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> **Iran also threatened oil tankers in Kuwaiti and Bahraini ports, according to a statement carried by state media. A maritime security source reported a liquefied natural gas tanker was damaged in the Emirati port of Khor Fakkan.**

##### [Iran launches largest attack in five months as US interceptors run low](https://newsus.cgtn.com/news/2026-09-10/Iran-launches-largest-attack-in-five-months-as-US-interceptors-run-low-1QjoE4ZepvW/p.html)

> **Iran has launched its largest missile salvo in five months as the conflict with the U.S. continues.** The barrage comes amid growing concerns over America’s stockpile of critical missile interceptors, after a CNN report in August revealed that U.S. forces were rapidly depleting key air-defense systems.

###### [Mokhber: US unmanned submarine could boost Iran’s autonomous systems](https://www.saba.ye/en/news3784663.htm)
\[Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:03:15 +0300\]

**Iran captured an unmanned sub/drone the US was using for de- mining**

> Tehran – Saba:Mohammad Mokhber, adviser to Iran’s Leader, said Wednesday that **the capture of an advanced US unmanned submarine by the IRGC Navy could spur a breakthrough in Iran’s autonomous systems.**
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> According to Fars News Agency, Mokhber said I**ran’s defense experts could turn the captured technology into strategic achievements, as they did with the US RQ-170 drone.**
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> He said the submarine could provide a new opportunity to advance Iran’s autonomous systems.

###### [Oil climbs past 100.00 a barrel](https://abc7.com/story/oil-prices-climb-100-barrel-us-war-iran-continues/19809803)

> **The global price of oil topped $100 a barrel on Wednesday for the first time since July,** as continued tensions between Iran and the United States added to uncertainty over future supply.