Trump pledges to ‘take care of’ Houthis if group blocks Saudi ships – Middle East crisis live
A tanker came under attack early Tuesday in the Hormuz strait off Oman, forcing the crew to abandon the vessel, the British military’s UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre said. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed the attack as well as two other attacks on ships in the waterway on Monday. Vessels in the strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, in a file shot.
- ▪A tanker came under attack early Tuesday in the Hormuz strait off Oman, forcing the crew to abandon the vessel, the British military’s UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre said.
- ▪Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed the attack as well as two other attacks on ships in the waterway on Monday.
- ▪Vessels in the strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, in a file shot.
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01.26 EDTOpening summary: Iran claims attacks on strait of Hormuz ships amid fresh US strikesWelcome to our live coverage of the latest developments in the Middle East crisis.Iran attacked a tanker in the strait of Hormuz early on Tuesday, forcing its crew to abandon the ship, as Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis announced they were imposing an immediate maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea after the two sides traded fire last week for the first time in years.A Houthi official said the Bab al-Mandeb strait – at the southern end of the Red Sea, through which about 12% of the world’s trade usually passes – would be closed to the Saudis in response to the kingdom’s “unjust blockade on Yemenis for over 10 years”.Saudi Arabia said it would take “all necessary measures to protect its…
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