(ANSA) - TEHRAN, AUGUST 07 - Iran has rejected, calling them "unfounded", the accusations of the G7, which considers Tehran responsible for the attack with a drone on the oil tanker MercerStreet off the coast of Oman, on July 29, attack in which two people died.
Yesterday the G7 foreign ministers (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) and the EU's High Representative, Josep Borrell, condemned in a statement "the attack on the oil tanker Mercer Street off the coast coast of Oman of July 29 ". "It was a deliberate and targeted attack, and a clear violation of international law. All available evidence clearly points to Iran. There is no justification for this attack."
"We strongly condemn the unfounded assertion of the G7 foreign ministers in which they directed baseless accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran," Tehran Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement. (HANDLE).
