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response from the US government to the killing of the sailors has been the cause of great consternation in India. Headlines over the weekend simply read: “No apology from Washington.” The initial US government statement
responsibility for the attack, although US CENTCOM blamed Iranian forces. The same day, an attack on the Palau-flagged tanker Skylight near Oman’s Musandam Peninsula killed two Indian crew members, while a third
US Central Command (Centcom) said it [completed a wave of strikes](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyp9v0e93o) targeting military, surveillance and radar sites in southern Iran. In response, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched
sailors from South India who were crying and making panicked calls home. I told them to stop calling and helped bring them up on to the deck." But by the time they reached the deck
response. The IRGC described the US naval blockade, as well as its seizure of ships attempting to reach Iranian ports, as “acts of piracy and maritime theft”, adding that the control over Hormuz is “under