Iran said Friday two missiles struck one of its oil tankers traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of
Saudi Arabia, a mysterious assault not immediately corroborated that still spiked oil prices amid months of heightened tensions at sea across the wider Mideast. There was no acknowledgement of the incident from Saudi Arabia, which in September had more than half of its daily crude oil production knocked out by an assault the U.S. blamed on
Iran, something denied by Tehran. All the attacks came after President Donald Trump's decision to unilaterally withdraw America from Tehran's
nuclear deal with world powers and impose crushing
sanctions targeting Iran's crude oil sales and shipments.