Iran and the United States are continuing to attack ships moving through and around the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB has claimed that four tankers were stopped in the strait in the past 24 hours.
In a post on X on Monday, 9 November, IRIB said the four tankers had been halted by attacks. It gave no details of the ships’ identities, their locations or how they were stopped.
Both Iran and the US have attacked ships they accuse of breaking the restrictions each has imposed on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran says all commercial ships must coordinate with its security forces to use the shipping lane close to its coast in the northern part of the strait. The US, for its part, says the southern lane is safe and open.
Iran has, however, carried out missile attacks on several ships that it accused of using the southern route. Over the past few weeks, Iranian authorities have repeatedly claimed that ships using the southern lane hit sea mines, and said some of them caught fire.
Even as the attacks on shipping continue, the US maintains that the southern lane is safe and open. US forces have also attacked several commercial ships accused of breaking the American military blockade of Iranian ports and shipping. Washington says the blockade is meant to stop Iran’s sales of oil and gas.
On Saturday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said American forces had disabled a commercial ship in the Gulf of Oman, just east of the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM said the ship’s crew ignored repeated warnings and tried several times to break the naval blockade imposed on Iran.
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