{"id":239776,"date":"2021-08-04T07:46:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T07:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239776"},"modified":"2021-08-05T07:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:56:02","slug":"russia-does-not-believe-iran-targeted-israel-managed-ship-near-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239776","title":{"rendered":"Russia does not believe Iran targeted Israel-managed ship near Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Middle East Monitor \u2013 Aug 3, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russia has said that it does not believe that Iran targeted the Israeli-managed tanker Mercer Street off the coast of Oman last week.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Iran Press<\/em>, Zamir Kabulov, Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s special envoy to Afghanistan, stressed that Moscow does not believe that Iran was behind the attack on the ship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not have the slightest reason to believe [that Iran was involved in the attack],&#8221; Kabulov was quoted as having told <em>Sputnik<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kabulov reiterated Russia&#8217;s stance, saying Moscow&#8217;s refusal to deal with such accusations was because &#8220;we have no facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;When there are facts, then we will work out our position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This came after the US, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210802-uk-blames-iran-for-deadly-ship-attack\/\">UK<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210802-us-israel-to-launch-joint-international-probe-into-tanker-attack\/\">Israel<\/a> accused Iran of being behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210730-2-killed-in-attack-on-israel-owned-ship-near-oman\/\">the attack<\/a> on Mercer Street which led to the captain and a security guard being killed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210803-russia-does-not-believe-iran-targeted-israel-managed-ship-near-oman\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official says: &#8220;We have not the slightest reason to believe [that Iran was involved in the attack],\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239777,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239776\/revisions\/239777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}