美国击落伊朗无人机 American President Donald Trump says a U . S . warship shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship . He described the incident as the latest hostile action by Iran .
The president said the drone came within 900 meters of the warship USS Boxer and ignored several warnings to stand down . He added the drone threatened the safety of the American ship and its crew .
The president also asked other countries to condemn Iran on what he said is an attempt to harm the freedom of navigation and global commerce in the Persian Gulf area . Last month , Iran shot down a U . S . drone that it said was flying over Iran . Trump chose to cancel a planned airstrike at the last minute .
Earlier on Thursday , Iran ' s state television said the country ' s Revolutionary Guard forces had seized a foreign oil tanker in the area on Sunday . It did not identify the seized tanker or nationalities of the crew . It said the tanker had 12 foreign crew members on board .
It accused the crew of being involved in trying to secretly take about 1 million liters of fuel out of Iran . The seized tanker appears to be the MT Riah . It is based in the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) but flies a flag from the country of Panama .
Last Sunday , the tanker stopped sending its location near Qeshm Island , which has a Revolutionary Guard base on it . The UAE ' s foreign ministry released statements this week denying that it owns or operates the ship .
The seizure was the latest in a series of developments in the area . Last week , a British navy warship warned Iranian Revolutionary Guard ships against interfering with the passage of a British oil tanker .
That came after British forces helped seize an Iranian supertanker off Gibraltar , a British territory at the southern tip of Spain . In May , two Emirati oil tankers were among four tankers attacked in acts of sabotage that the U . S . has blamed on Iran .
And last month saw two other attacks on oil vessels . Iran denies involvement in any of the attacks .
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