Iran strikes cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz
Key takeaways
- The attack comes as the traffic in the waterway has gone up.
- Of the 70, 53 were commercial vessels with the firm stating that low-risk ships dominated the day s profile.
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Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged container ship, Ever Lovely, near the coast of Oman, which was attempting to flow through the new route in the Strait of Hormuz advocated by the United Nations maritime agency.
The vessel was struck on the starboard side and its bridge suffered damage, but no one on board was injured, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center, which is affiliated with the British Royal Navy.
Iranian state media reported that Iran warned that safe passages in the strait, through which about 20 percent of the world s oil and gas flows, are restricted to routes marked by Tehran and that others are dangerous and unacceptable.