🕌 Middle East May 5, 2026 · Qazi Zaid

Iran says US attacked cargo boats in Hormuz, killing five civilians

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Iran says US attacked cargo boats in Hormuz, killing five civilians






Iranian state media, including Tasnim News Agency, reported that five people were killed after United States forces targeted what it described as civilian boats in the Strait of Hormuz.

A military official said the vessels were “two small cargo boats carrying civilians that were moving from Khasab on the coast of Oman towards the Iranian coast.”

“This hasty and clumsy behaviour by the

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