Iran military from the United Arab Emirates using cruise missiles in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one mariner and wounding eight others.
This happened after US announced a new round of strikes on Iran on Monday, hours after President Donald Trump said that the United States is ‘reinstating’ a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
‘We’re taking out all of their capability for anything having to do with the strait, the Hormuz Strait,’ Trump had said Monday evening, per CBS News.
‘And I think in the end we will end up just controlling the whole thing.’
In response to the new attack, the Emirates threatened to retaliate against Iran, potentially drawing the nation home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai back into fighting with Tehran.
The attacks come as Iran and the U.S. both vie for control of the strait through which a fifth of all crude oil and natural gas once passed in peacetime.
This is the third consecutive day with American strikes on Tehran and the fifth in the past week.
‘At 4:45 p.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command began launching the third consecutive night of strikes against Iran, at the Commander in Chief’s direction,’ CENTCOM said in a statement.
‘These strikes will continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.’
Iran has insisted it controls the critical waterway, as another exchange of fire threatened a return to all-out war.
The US had until now said the strait should remain open to all without tolls, as it was before the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28.
