Iran and US Hit Tankers in Biggest Wave of Attacks on Shipping Since War Began

By Enas Alashray, Idrees Ali and Jana Choukeir

CAIRO/WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war.

The attacks in and around the vital waterway sent the price of oil surging, with the international Brent crude LCOc1 benchmark breaching $100 a barrel for the first time since July. The politically sensitive average retail price of