In recent hours, Iran shot at a container ship 15 nautical miles northeast of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz, the British Maritime Trade Operations Agency (UKMTO) reported this Wednesday.
An armed boat from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) approached the ship without establishing prior radio contact and opened fire on it, “which has caused serious damage to the command bridge,” said the organization, which collects information on attacks on ships in the Iran war.
The entire crew “is safe” and “no fires or environmental repercussions have been reported,” added the agency, based in the United Kingdom.
Truce without details
The information about the attack comes the day after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, reversed his decision not to extend the ceasefire with Iran, which expired this Wednesday, and announced an indefinite truce to give time for negotiations with the ayatollah regime.
Trump assured, however, that he will maintain the naval blockade imposed against Iran, which, according to the US Central Command, has stopped 90% of Iran’s maritime trade for 10 days.
The Republican said this morning on his official Truth Social account that several people have told him that “Iran wants to open the strait immediately” but that he responded: “if we do that, there will never be an agreement.”
“Iran does not want the Strait of Hormuz to be closed, it wants it open to be able to earn 500 million dollars a day (…) they only say that they want it closed because I have it completely BLOCKED (CLOSED!),” added the president.
Finally, Trump again threatened to destroy the Islamic republic “including its leaders” if an agreement is not reached.
Tehran, for its part, rejected the president’s statements about the ceasefire, saying that it is not possible for the party that is “losing” the war to decide the conditions and that the naval blockade is perceived as if it were a bombing.
Peace talks between the two sides have been paralyzed and the US delegation led by Vice President JD Vance canceled its trip to Islamabad before Trump announced the extension of the ceasefire.
