Ahmed Kamel – Egypt Daily News
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially denied all allegations linking Tehran to the targeted drone attack that struck the American-owned floating storage and regasification unit at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta. A senior diplomatic source within the Iranian foreign ministry stated on Thursday, July 30, 2026, that Iran had absolutely no involvement in the operation and possesses no intention of executing such actions.
The representative emphasized that diplomatic relations between Tehran and Cairo remain deeply rooted in mutual respect, explicitly reassuring Egyptian authorities that the Islamic Republic does not target Egypt’s sovereign national infrastructure or economic assets.
The formal disclaimer from Tehran materializes alongside a highly parallel denial from Yemen’s Houthi movement, completely consolidating the resistance axis’s rejection of the maritime bombing. Speaking to the rebel-aligned Saba news agency, a Houthi foreign ministry spokesperson dismissed all claims linking Yemen to the dual-vessel infrastructure sabotage as complete rumors.
The Houthi administration forcefully maintained that commercial shipping corridors remain entirely secure across the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden for all unaligned merchant fleets, actively pushing back against claims that the group is expanding its geographic theater of operations into the eastern Mediterranean.
Tehran Accuses Israel and Ukraine of Coordinated False Flag Warfare to Disrupt Egypt-Iran Ties
The Iranian foreign ministry source pointedly implied that Israel and Ukraine likely orchestrated the drone strike as a deceptive false flag operation. The diplomat asserted that the Israeli establishment possesses a documented historical legacy of conducting psychological warfare and manufactured misdirection to alienate Arab states from Tehran.
The ministry explicitly cited “Operation Suzannah”, the notorious 1954 Lavon Affair in which Israeli operatives sabotaged Western sites in Egypt to manipulate foreign policy, as the primary historical precedent for Wednesday’s infrastructure bombing.
Iranian intelligence officials further alleged that Ukraine has increasingly engaged in these deniable maritime disruptions over recent months to deliberately broaden the geographic boundaries of its ongoing European conflict. Tehran claimed that recent operational briefs compiled by the Iraqi National Security Advisor exposed active espionage cells inside the Levant, where Ukrainian technical specialists are reportedly collaborating with Israeli handlers to deploy deniable sabotage assets.
According to Iranian defense analysts, the Damietta operation was specifically engineered to destroy Egypt’s expanding energy cooperation with regional partners while falsely implicating Iranian-aligned forces.
Damietta Port Sustains Full Operational Output as Forensic Investigations Deepen Across the Harbor
The high-stakes diplomatic denials follow an explicit intelligence brief issued by the Egyptian Cabinet confirming that an unmanned aerial vehicle directly initiated the dual-ship blasts. The initial projectile strike severely compromised the floating storage vessel Energos Winter, triggering a high-volume structural fire that quickly breached the hull of the adjacent liquefied natural gas carrier GasLog Salem.
Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources deployed specialized rapid-response cooling arrays to safely insulate the primary liquefaction facility and prevent a total catastrophic collapse of the coastal transit grid.
Despite the severe geopolitical friction surrounding the drone incursion, the Damietta Port Authority confirmed that all loading docks, cargo handling terminals, and shipping lanes have successfully maintained full operational efficiency. Regulatory boards verified that international maritime traffic continues to proceed at normal scheduled rates without any commercial cargo delays.
The office of the Egyptian prime minister announced that sovereign forensic units and national security agencies are actively parsing the physical drone wreckage to definitively identify the electronic launch signatures and permanently protect Egypt’s vital energy networks.
