– International news – Tasnim news, the Pentagon explained today that the attempt to hijack the merchant ship Central Park on Sunday was apparently made by Somali pirates. It is not the Yemeni forces. However, the US Ministry of Defense continues to insist on its claim about the firing of two ballistic missiles by the Yemeni forces towards the American destroyer Mason after the arrest of the armed men. > The US Central Command had previously announced that it had arrested 5 armed people who were planning to seize the Central Park ship in the Gulf of Aden. According to the claim of this American command center, it was after the arrest of these people that the Yemeni armed forces fired two ballistic missiles at the destroyer USS Mason. CENTCOM claimed that these missiles landed at a distance of eleven miles from this ship. and they did not leave any damage or casualties.

This American force has also claimed that this destroyer, which is part of the Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group, responded to receiving an emergency message from the merchant ship Central Park towards It had moved.

Central Park had claimed in that emergency message that it was under attack. Centcom announced that it was able to prevent the hijacking of this commercial ship that sailed under the flag of Liberia and is owned by the Zodiac company. The Associated Press reported that the owner of this commercial ship is an Israeli billionaire. Central Park’s cargo was sulfuric acid and it had 22 crew members from different countries.