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A State Department official confirmed Tuesday that Iranian patrol boats fired on a cargo ship in the Gulf of Hormuz, but denied reports of Americans onboard.
"According to information received from the vessel's operators, there are no Americans aboard," the official told The Anadolu Agency.
Al Arabiya News Channel claimed Tuesday that Iran fired on a U.S. cargo ship and directed it to the Bandar Abbas port on the southern coast of Iran. It also said as many as 34 American sailors are believed to be onboard.
But a Defense Department spokesman told The Associated Press that the ship was not an American ship.
Iranian patrol boats fired at the bow of the Marshall Island-flagged MV Maersk Tigris and directed it to leave Iranian territorial waters, said Col. Steve Warren.
Iranian forces boarded the ship but there were no injuries reported, according to the colonel.
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