Iran\u2019s military struck a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, according to a U.S. official, undermining efforts to restore shipping traffic through the crucial waterway.<\/p>\n
The ship, the Ever Lovely, was attacked after Iran agreed last week to let shipping pass through the strait safely.<\/p>\n
The strike, which took place when the ship was near the coast of Oman, prompted a United Nations agency, the International Maritime Organization, to pause an evacuation<\/a> of hundreds of ships that had been stranded in the Persian Gulf during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n Arsenio Dominguez, the secretary general of the maritime organization, did not name the attacked ship in a news release Thursday, but said it was not part of the agency\u2019s evacuation. <\/p>\n In recent days, ship traffic through the strait surged as shipping companies calculated that the waterway had become safer after the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding last week to try to find a lasting peace.<\/p>\n Around 70 vessels transited the waterway on Wednesday, including 29 tankers, making it the busiest day since March 1, the day after the war began, according to Kpler, a maritime data company. But earlier Thursday, the naval arm of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement that only routes announced by Iran were authorized, warning ships against using any other corridor. Many ships have been using a route on the southern side of the strait, hugging the Omani coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Ever Lovely is owned by Evergreen Marine, a large shipping company based in Taiwan, according to Equasis, a ship data base.<\/p>\n Jenny Gross and Rebecca F. Elliott contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s military struck a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, according to a U.S. official,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[15389,102,3657,34,5484,181,39,1417,101],"class_list":["post-177881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-freight-cargo","tag-hormuz","tag-international-maritime-organization","tag-iran","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guards-corps","tag-oman","tag-persian-gulf","tag-ships-and-shipping","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116813951315994437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}