{"id":240979,"date":"2026-08-08T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/240979\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:08:13","slug":"iran-targeted-tanker-says-uae-as-tehran-says-hormuz-deal-with-oman-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/240979\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran targeted tanker, says UAE, as Tehran says Hormuz deal with Oman close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United Arab Emirates on Saturday said Iran had targeted a tanker belonging to the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iran has imposed an effective blockade of the strait and wants to charge users for passage, which the US fiercely opposes, and is in talks with nearby Oman over arrangements for the strait\u2019s future management.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The UAE foreign ministry in a statement condemned what it called a \u201chostile Iranian attack that targeted a tanker belonging to ADNOC with a missile while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz, without causing casualties\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Friday, ADNOC put out a statement saying that since the start of the war, 15 of its vessels had been attacked in Hormuz, \u201cincluding three vessels this week alone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, centre, surrounded by security personnel on Monday in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf ahead of Arbaeen, one of the largest annual Shi\u2019ite religious gatherings. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/80f33796-6e89-4864-b4d6-869616ba1a40_b852b87f.jpg\" title=\"Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, centre, surrounded by security personnel on Monday in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf ahead of Arbaeen, one of the largest annual Shi\u2019ite religious gatherings. Photo: AP\"\/>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, centre, surrounded by security personnel on Monday in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf ahead of Arbaeen, one of the largest annual Shi\u2019ite religious gatherings. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Before US-Israeli strikes in February kicked off what quickly became a regional war, Hormuz carried around a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday said that talks with Oman were \u201capproaching the final stages\u201d but cautioned that \u201cthis is not a sign of the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Arab Emirates on Saturday said Iran had targeted a tanker belonging to the state-owned Abu Dhabi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[22978,19807,6455,34,11943,181,188,101,69,272,51],"class_list":["post-240979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-abu-dhabi-national-oil-company","tag-adnoc","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-iran","tag-iranian-foreign-minister-abbas-araghchi","tag-oman","tag-revolutionary-guards","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117060521563953494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240979","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=240979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}