A US Defense Department expert team has concluded that the drone behind the deadly attack on the Mercer Street commercial vessel last week was produced in Iran, US Central Command said in a statement on Friday.
The statement, quoted by CNN, said that the investigative team dispatched to the vessel from the USS Ronald Reagan found that the ship off the coast of Oman was targeted on July 30 by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) “loaded with a military-grade explosive.” The attack killed two on board the vessel.
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