Shots fired as Iran tries to seize oil tankers in Gulf of Oman, US Navy says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Critics of the 2015 nuclear deal argued it did nothing to stop Iran from arming and training a broad array of militias across Iraq, Syria and Yemen with drones and precision missiles.
35% : Why it matters: Reports of Iran attempting to seize commercial fuel tanker ships in the Gulf have picked up in recent months as the United States resumed its own seizures of sanctioned Iranian oil and gas shipments abroad.
27% : The big picture: Iranian attacks on commercial shipping and on neighboring states increased significantly after the Trump administration withdrew from the multinational nuclear accord with Tehran and imposed punishing economic sanctions in 2018.
13% :Iran has also been accused of launching precision drone attacks on vessels linked to Israeli billionaires amid a wider covert conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel.

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