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Tensions are in the Middle East over the latest attacks on oil tankers. The USA is Iran for the attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. The tankers are by Japan and Norway. They were by blasts while waters close to the strategically important Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Around a fifth of the world's oil through the Strait, which just 68km at its narrowest point. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Iran was behind the "blatant assault" on the vessels. He said the U.S. would itself and its allies against "Iranian aggression" in the region. However, he no evidence that Iran was behind the attacks.

The attacks the second such incidents out against tankers in the past month. Two Saudi tankers were in the UAE port of Fujairah last month. The U.S. says the latest tankers were by mines and posted a video online of supposed Iranian forces an unexploded mine off the hull of one of the ships. Iran's Foreign Minister the attacks as "suspicious". He said Iran's navy was them. Iran called the U.S. accusations "unfounded," "inflammatory" and "Iranophobic". The Japanese owner of one of the tankers said his vessel was by some kind of missile and not by a mine. The United Nations that the truth needed to be "clearly ".