Iraqi Security Forces Work to Deactivate Mine Discovered on Oil Tanker, Reports Say

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Tensions are mounting in the Persian Gulf amid the United States’ show of force against Iran in the Persian Gulf as the anniversary of the assassination of top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in a targeted US Air Force extrajudicial killing approaches.

Iraq has delegated explosives experts to examine and deactivate a mine found on the hull of an oil storage oil tanker in waters alongside the Persian Gulf near the Iraqi coast, The Associated Press reported, citing local authorities.

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