Al-Monitor - The US military offers its condolences to Iran, but also criticizes the Islamic Republic for holding the training exercise in a high-traffic body of water, the Gulf of Oman.
The US military offered its condolences to Iran after Iranian sailors died in a friendly fire incident Sunday.


A spokesman for US Central Command, also known as CENTCOM, said the incident during an Iranian naval training exercise Sunday was �tragic.�


�U.S. Central Command offers our sincere condolences to the Iranian people for the tragic loss of life when an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile struck the Iranian auxiliary vessel Konarak in the Gulf of Oman on May 10, 2020,� Capt. Bill Urban said in a statement sent to Al-Monitor today.




Read more here