A tanker travelling off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz caught on fire early Tuesday (July 7, 2026) morning after beingstruck by a projectile, the British military said.
Iranian state television says the liquified natural gas tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz off Oman after ignoring warnings.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre said the tanker had been hit near Limah, Oman, in the strait.
The body of Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei arrived in the holy city of Qom on Monday evening, hours after a sea of people filled the streets of Tehran for his funeral procession in the capital.
Ordinary Iranians loyal to the Islamic republic joined top officials for the event, in which a truck carrying the bodies of Khamenei and four family members killed in a February 28 US-Israeli strike inched its way to Azadi Square in the west of the city.
Mourners dressed in black flooded into Iran’s capital Monday (July 6, 2026) for a procession as part of the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with throngs of people calling for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin, and those of members of his family killed February 28 in an airstrike at the start of the war launched by Israel and the United States, sat on board a truck decorated to resemble the ornamental grating that surrounds the shrine of an imam.
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