Iran accuses US of 'reckless military adventure'

The US is also maintaining a naval blockade of Iranian ports in order to exert pressure on Tehran to agree to the US terms - a move that has angered Tehran. On Friday, US Central Command (Centcom) said US forces had disabled two Iranian-flagged unladen oil tankers attempting to pull into an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman "in violation of the ongoing US blockade". US forces had fired "precision munitions into their smokestacks, preventing the non-compliant ships from entering Iran," the statement said.The new attack followed Thursday's exchanges in the Strait of Hormuz, which both sides blamed on each other. Centcom accused Iran of launching missiles, drones and small boats against three of its warships, in what it called an "unprovoked attack". Iran's top military command, meanwhile, alleged the US had targeted an Iranian oil tanker and another vessel approaching the Strait of Hormuz and carried out "aerial attacks" on several coastal areas.One of the cargo vessels attacked near the waters of Minab had caught fire, according to Mohammad Radmehr, an official in the southern Hormozgan province. "Ten injured sailors have been transferred to hospital, and local groups and search teams are trying to learn the fate of the other sailors," Radmehr told Iranian state news agency Mehr.