An incident involving an oil tanker was reported on Saturday near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the British maritime security agency UKMTO, with Tehran saying for its part it had stopped four ships trying to cross this strategic sea lane.
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The agency “received a report of an incident involving an oil tanker and military forces in the Gulf of Oman,” it said in a statement, against a backdrop of clashes between the United States and Iran in this strategic region for the global transport of hydrocarbons.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards then claimed to have “stopped in the last 24 hours” four ships attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz “after warning shots”, generally carried out using missiles.
Iran has regularly prevented ships from passing through this strategic strait since the American-Iranian memorandum of understanding which allowed its reopening in mid-July was shattered.
