{"id":178747,"date":"2026-06-26T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/178747\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:14:10","slug":"imo-pauses-evacuation-operations-following-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/178747\/","title":{"rendered":"IMO pauses evacuation operations following drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"IMO pauses evacuation operations following drone strike\" title=\"IMO pauses evacuation operations following drone strike\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fkrxapejafejgunnvyporon8bf47icuahgszlrpn-1782485343.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo. @PolymarketIntel\/X.com<\/p>\n<p> The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has suspended its operation to evacuate ships and crew stranded in the Persian Gulf. <\/p>\n<p>The reason for halting the operation was an Iranian attack on a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/defence24.com\/geopolitics\/imo-suspends-evacuation-after-iranian-drone-attack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Defence24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of ships and thousands of sailors are awaiting evacuation. According to IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez, the attacked vessel was not subject to the evacuation procedure. \u201cI have decided to temporarily suspend the implementation of this operation to confirm that the necessary security guarantees still apply to the vessels on our evacuation list and all others in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision followed an announcement by Taiwan\u2019s Evergreen Marine that its\u00a0vessel was struck by a drone near the coast of Oman, on a route recommended by the British naval agency <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/tanker-struck-east-of-oman-by-unidentified-projectile-says-ukmto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UKMTO<\/a>. The attack was most likely conducted by Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard. \u201cThe crew, vessel, and cargo are all safe,\u201d Evergreen said in a statement. \u201cThe vessel has safely departed the Strait of Hormuz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo. @PolymarketIntel\/X.com The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has suspended its operation to evacuate ships and crew stranded in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[84,5096,3657,34,39,101],"class_list":["post-178747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-attack","tag-cargo-vessel","tag-international-maritime-organization","tag-iran","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116817065636555377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178747","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=178747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}