Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed that they had struck an oil tanker in the Gulf, saying it belonged to Israel, AFP reports.

“An oil tanker belonging to the illegitimate and child-killing Zionist regime with the trade name ‘Aqua 1’ in the central region of the Persian Gulf was precisely targeted in the valiant missile battle of the IRGC naval forces, and is burning,” the Guards said in a statement carried by state television.