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The day
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- The UAE has strongly condemned an Iranian drone attack on an Adnoc oil tanker in the blockaded strait of Hormuz, as the US was due to start guiding ships through the waterway.
- US Central Command (Centcom) denied that one of its warships trying to pass through the strait of Hormuz had been struck by Iranian missiles.
- Centcom said no US Navy ships have been struck, adding that US forces are continuing to enforce the naval blockade on Iranian ports.
- The denial came after unverified claims in Iranian media that Iran had stopped a US warship from passing through the strait of Hormuz after two missiles were reported to have hit the vessel near Jask island after it ignored Iranian warnings.
- The Fars news agency said the ship was hit as it was sailing through the strait “in violation of traffic and shipping security”.
- The US has launched an operation to “guide” ships trapped in the Gulf by the war through a southern route of the strait of Hormuz, even as Tehran insists that any such transits will have to be coordinated with its armed forces.
- Two US-flagged merchant vessels have crossed through the strait of Hormuz as US Navy guided-missile destroyers operate in the gulf, US Central Command said on Monday.
- Seoul said on Monday that an “explosion and fire” had struck a South Korea-run ship in the strait of Hormuz, the crucial Middle Eastern waterway effectively blocked following US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
- The United Arab Emirates has intercepted three missiles fired from Iran over its territorial waters, with a fourth one crashing into the sea, the Gulf country’s defence ministry said in a post on X on Monday.
- Hezbollah said its forces clashed with Israeli soldiers on Monday in south Lebanon near the border where its troops are still operating, despite a ceasefire since 17 April.
- Hezbollah’s leader condemned Israel’s operations in Lebanon amid a fragile ceasefire, repeating the group’s rejection of direct negotiations between the Israeli and Lebanese governments.
- Iran earlier threatened any foreign military force attempting to enter the strait.
- Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said officials were reviewing a US counter-proposal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran. He suggested that the US has to reduce its “excessive” demands if progress is going to be made in peace talks which have reached an impasse.
- The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said on Monday that the only way to reopen the strait was “a coordinated reopening by the United States and Iran”.
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