UAE Blames Iran for Drone Strikes on 2 ADNOC Tankers in Strait of Hormuz
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Updated · The Associated Press · Aug 14
UAE Blames Iran for Drone Strikes on 2 ADNOC Tankers in Strait of Hormuz
3 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · Aug 14
Summary
Two ADNOC tankers were hit by drones Thursday evening while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, suffering minor damage but no casualties, according to the company and the British military’s maritime monitoring center.
The UAE said Friday that Iran carried out the attack, calling it a flagrant breach of freedom of navigation and accusing the Revolutionary Guard of using the chokepoint for economic coercion and piracy.
Iran had not immediately responded, but the incident sharpened concerns over the safety of commercial shipping through the waterway linking the Persian Gulf to global markets.
Separately, Jared Kushner is due in Israel and Cairo next week with Nickolay Mladenov and Tony Blair to try to salvage a U.S.-brokered Gaza arrangement that has met Israeli resistance.