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Source: Xinhua

July 28, 2010

Tehran – The Managing Director of Iranian Navigation and Ports Organization on Wednesday rules out the possibility of terrorist attack on a Japanese tanker in Persian Gulf, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

“Probably the earthquake has caused such an incident,” Ataollah Sadr was quoted as saying.

Talking to Mehr about the blast in Japanese oil tanker, Sadr rejected the possibility of any terrorist attack on the tanker, saying “due to the presence of some inflammable steams and gases on the oil tankers, the possibility of blast cannot be ruled out.”

“Based on the dialogues and messages heard from Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC), there has been news about the quake occurrence,” Sadr said, referring to the Japanese oil tanker M. Star blasted near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, leaving one person slightly injured.

The crude oil tanker M. Star was damaged but the engine was not affected, Kenji Yoshimura, a publicity official of the Mitsui O.S. K. Lines Ltd., owner of the ship, told Xinhua. The explosion did not lead to an oil leakage, he said.

The explosion occurred at about local time 00:30 a.m. Wednesday (2100 GMT, Tuesday) when the ship was sailing in Oman waters in the western part of the strait.