UAE condemns Iran's 'brazen' attack on tankers as US launches fresh strikes
UAE condemns Iran's 'brazen' attack on tankers as US launches fresh strikes - Published The UAE accused Iran of a "brazen" attack on two tankers in the...
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- UAE condemns Iran's 'brazen' attack on tankers as US launches fresh strikes - Published The UAE accused Iran of a "brazen" attack on two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, killing one and wounding eight, as Donald Trump said the US would impose a 20% charge as part of a new blockade on the waterway.
- In a Truth Social post earlier in the day, Trump said the US was reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and would impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.
- He said this would stop "Iran's ships or customers" from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but "all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait".
- "We are taking over the strait," he said.
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UAE condemns Iran's 'brazen' attack on tankers as US launches fresh strikes - Published The UAE accused Iran of a "brazen" attack on two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, killing one and wounding eight, as Donald Trump said the US would impose a 20% charge as part of a new blockade on the waterway. In a Truth Social post earlier in the day, Trump said the US was reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and would impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz. He said this would stop "Iran's ships or customers" from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but "all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait". "We are taking over the strait," he said. Before Trump's announcement, Iran's top military headquarters said it would not allow the US to "interfere in the management" of the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement shared by Iranian media, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesperson of Khatam al-Anbiya, said "repeated adventurism and malicious actions" from the US in the strait have "seriously endangered regional security, international trade and the passage of oil tankers and commercial vessels".