Overview
- The UAE Foreign Ministry said an ADNOC-affiliated vessel was attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz and confirmed there were no injuries, calling the incident a hostile act.
- Abu Dhabi accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of using maritime strikes as economic coercion and described the targeting of commercial shipping as acts of piracy that violate UN Security Council Resolution 2817.
- The statement demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities and the complete, unconditional reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to restore safe passage for merchant vessels.
- The incident adds to a pattern of recent assaults on ADNOC-linked ships and follows U.S. naval moves and strikes that have sharply reduced daily commercial transits through the strait and raised freight and insurance costs.
- Diplomatic efforts to reopen a secure corridor remain fragile under Oman-led talks, and the dispute poses ongoing risks to regional stability and to the flow of oil and liquefied natural gas that move through the chokepoint.