IRGC spokesman says attack on 'offending' ships was response to third U.S. breach of agreement

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it struck the "offending" ships as a response to what it describes as a third U.S. breach of an agreement. The IRGC spokesman claimed that the United States violated the agreement twice during negotiations and attacked, and violated it a third time after signing the memorandum of understanding. The spokesman said the attack on the ships after signing the memorandum was neither unauthorized nor carried out without coordination with higher authorities, and that it was "definitely a firm and crushing response" to the third U.S. breach. (Sources: Entekhab (Telegram) and Fars (Telegram))

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