US Navy opens fire on Iranian cargo ship attempting to breach blockade
- The American army opened fire and seized control of an Iranian-flagged ship on Sunday, Donald Trump announced.
- The Touska, which departed from Malaysia on April 12, was intercepted in the Gulf of Oman while attempting to break the blockade.
- This incident comes as the United States accuses Iran of launching attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, including against a French ship.
The US Navy opened fire on Sunday on an Iranian cargo ship attempting to breach the blockade of Iranian ports by the United States and took control, Donald Trump stated on his Truth Social network. The Iranian-flagged cargo ship Touska “tried to breach our maritime blockade, and it didn’t go well for them”
, the American president wrote.
An American destroyer intercepted the cargo “in the Gulf of Oman and ordered it to stop”
, but as the crew refused to comply, the warship immobilized it by firing at the engine room, and “the US Marines now have control of the ship”
, according to Donald Trump. The Touska is targeted by sanctions from the US Treasury, he emphasized.
A previous article mentioned 23 ships complying
According to Marine Traffic, the container ship Touska, which departed from Malaysia on April 12, was about 45 km from the extreme south of the Iranian coast, near the city of Chabahar, six hours before Donald Trump’s announcement. Since the start of the blockade of Iranian ports imposed by the US on April 13, “23 ships have obeyed the orders of the American forces to turn back”
.
Iran had lifted its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas trade normally passes, but announced on Saturday that they would resume “strict control”
in response to the US decision to maintain their blockade of its ports.
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In a previous post on Truth Social Sunday morning, Donald Trump accused Tehran of violating the ceasefire, which expires in three days, by launching attacks on Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz, targeting a French and a British ship, according to him.
A CMA CGM vessel “was subjected to warning shots”
in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday (Saturday), the French maritime transport group told AFP on Sunday, confirming the president’s remarks, interviewed by LCI journalist Margot Haddad over the phone.
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