The military released a video that officials claimed showed an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from the 560-foot Courageous. “We received reports that something flew towards the ship,” Yutaka Katada, president of Kokaku Sangyo Co., said at a press conference, according to NBC. The drone, which was not struck, had spotted Iranian vessels beginning to close in on the tankers, the source said. He left Thursday as the oil tankers burned. Russian President Vladimir Putin met Friday with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kyrgyzstan and praised the relationship between the two nations.

Source: Huffington Post June 15, 2019 00:22 UTC