Saudi border guards said yesterday that they forced three Iranian boats to withdraw from Saudi territorial waters after the guards fired warning shots, in return, a Iranian military official said that the Saudi border guards fired on Iranian fishermen who entered the territorial waters of the Kingdom.
The official Saudi Press Agency quoted a spokesman for the border guards as saying in a statement that the guard patrols monitored three Iranian boats after entering Saudi waters, "where they were immediately followed up and repeated warnings issued to them to stop, but they refused to respond."
After that, the Saudi border guards patrols fired warning shots, after which Iranian boats returned their tracks, and the border guards stressed that "no violations will be allowed in the waters of the kingdom."
The Saudi Border Guard intercepted three Iranian boats
1- On Saturday, the Saudi Border Guard announced that it had forced three Iranian boats to return after they entered Saudi waters, last Thursday, at half past six in the evening.
A Saudi Border Guard spokesman, pic.twitter.com/se7Fifozvh
- M. Saleh Al-Kharashi (@ saleh1u1) June 27, 2020
Iranian navy
in return, the Iranian navy commander said in Bushehr , Crown God Rezaei - Nejad province, in a press statement Friday that the Saudi coast guards fired at Iranian fishermen crossed maritime border between the two countries in the Gulf waters.
The military official in the province bordering the Gulf waters added that no injuries or deaths were reported in the accident, adding that details of the accident will be announced once the investigations are completed.
Official Iranian media quoted a local official in Bushehr province as saying that the fishermen lost their way and entered Saudi territorial waters, and the same media added that the fishermen left the country on June 21 in a ten-day trip, and did not specify when they came under warning fire from the Saudi forces. .
Tensions occurred in the Gulf waters last year when ships and oil tankers came under mysterious attacks near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, and Saudi Arabia accused Iran of standing behind it, which Iran denied. Riyadh also accused Tehran of being behind attacks against installations belonging to the Aramco oil company last September, which were adopted by the Houthis in Yemen, who are supported by Tehran.