Iran's IRGC strikes U.S. oil tanker in Gulf

TEHRAN, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday it had hit a U.S. oil tanker north of the Gulf with missiles, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

The American tanker was targeted by the IRGC's navy early Thursday and was reported to be burning, it said.

According to Fars, the IRGC had earlier announced that, based on international rules and resolutions