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Now. >> so iran is denying any involvement and saying the u.s. doesn't have a shred of evidence. of course, the u.s. feels its evidence is crystal clear. but what is not clear is what does the u.s. do next? the acting secretary of defense says the immediate goal is to build international consensus that iran is behind this. what we're hearing from u.s. allies is an agreement with the u.s. assessment. but not the blatant blaming of iran that the u.s. is doing at least not yet. the europeans, of course, want to hold on to what's left of the iran nuclear deal. remember, even in the investigation t...

Play in tehran. when you look at the government and leadership in tehran, they're attacked the united states. the foreign minister javad zarif, he came out and said the u.s. is trying to sabotage the escalation here in the persian gulf area. this tanker attack took place as iran's supreme leader was actually meeting with the prime minister of japan. the iranians saying, look, why on earth would we have attacked tankers as this meeting was going on. guys. >> fred pleitgen thank you from tehran. let's get to president trump, because he is convinced that iran was behind the attack. the big questi...

And sam kiley is in the united arab emirates. fled first fred first to you. the u.s. is blaming iranians for the tanker attack and for allegedly firing a missile at a u.s. drone. what is iran's reaction to all of this? >> reporter: well, first of all, as far as the tankers are concerned, as you said the iranians still continue to say that they are not behind those attacks. with that video that the u.s. has presented, which allegedly shows them taking something off what the u.s. believes could be a mine off the side of a ship, iranians have specifically not commented on that video. the interest...

There. what do you think? >> absolutely. if you look at the sides of the ships where the explosions occurred it's similar to what happened to uss cole. you can see explosive residue on the side. you can see the metal shoved inward indicating it was an external explosion on the ship. the fact the iranians went and removed one of the mines. these are all pieces of the evidence picture that the united states is now building along with the forensics that hopefully we will obtain from the previous four ships attacked hopefully from these two ships to be able to prove with absolute certainty for the...

>> reporter: us defense officials tell me there are no execute orders for us naval vessels to escort commercial ships through the strait of hormuz. us central command release this photo. the unexploded limpet mine removed from one of the tankers is the same type used to attack more oil tankers in the same area. united arab emirates presented evidence to the un security council the attacks were state-sponsored. oil prices increased by 4% following thursday's tanker attack but remain lower than where they were two months ago. the 20 ministers proud to stabilize the oil market, the us granted a w...