Oil spill in Gulf likely caused by tanker dump, Iran says

Iran’s top environmental official said on Tuesday that a suspected oil spill in the Gulf near Iran’s Kharg Island was likely caused by a tanker dumping waste water and not a leak from oil facilities

Iran’s top environmental official said on Tuesday that a suspected oil spill in the Gulf near Iran’s Kharg Island was likely caused by a tanker dumping waste water and not a leak from oil facilities.

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The suspected oil spill covering many square miles of sea near Iran’s main oil hub of Kharg Island has been seen on satellite imagery.

The likely spill, appearing on images as a grey and white slick, covered waters to the west of the 5-mile long island, pictures from Copernicus’s Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 satellites showed on May 6-8.