Boil again in Hormuz, Iran returned Indian tanker, yesterday also the ship was attacked

New Delhi: Iran has sent back an Indian tanker from the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian army did not allow this Indian tanker to cross Hormuz. Iran’s news agency Fars has given this information. Earlier on Tuesday, a tanker coming to India was attacked in Hormuz. Tension has increased again in the Strait of Hormuz after the latest attack by the US on Iran’s Bandar Abbas Port and the Iranian attack on Bahrain and Kuwait in response.

Iran’s news agency has said that an Indian oil tanker passing through the Oman corridor in the Strait of Hormuz has been sent back. This Indian tanker was crossing the Strait of Hormuz using the Omani Corridor. But the Iranian Army protested on this, after which the tanker was asked to return from there.

On June 24, Oman and the UN’s International Maritime Organization announced a temporary corridor in the strait near the coast of Oman. America will maintain this corridor built to rescue ships stuck in the Gulf. Fars said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps keeps warning ships using the Oman corridor through radio communications. The IRGC orders such ships to use the corridor designated by Iran instead of the Oman corridor.

Fars said ship tracking showed that all ships that passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday morning used the corridor approved by Iran. Earlier on Tuesday, a ship carrying LNG from Qatar to India was attacked. According to the information, this Qatari ship was coming to Gujarat, India with LNG, when it came under drone attack while passing through Hormuz. There were a total of 29 crew on this ship, of which four were Indians. All crew including crew members are said to be safe. According to the report, a fire broke out in the engine room of the ship after the drone attack.

Meanwhile, the crew of the Saudi Arabian tanker which was attacked in Hormuz on Tuesday is safe. Saudi Arabia’s national shipping company Bahri says that the cargo is safe and the ship is in seaworthy condition. The statement came on Wednesday when the US Central Command announced air strikes on Iranian targets in response to the attacks on ‘Vadian’ and two other commercial ships – M/T Al Reqayt and M/T Cyprus Prosperity.

CENTCOM said the US military targeted more than 80 targets using precision-guided munitions. These included Iran’s air defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal radar sites and anti-ship missile capabilities. More than 60 fast attack boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy operating in and around the strait were also destroyed in these attacks. CENTCOM said the operation was aimed at reducing Iran’s ability to continue attacking international shipping on vital trade routes. After this, Iran attacked Kuwait and Bahrain on Wednesday.

Tension increased due to Trump’s statement
Meanwhile, the tension has increased further due to a statement by US President Donald Trump. Trump has said that the ceasefire with Iran is “over”. He described Iranian leaders as “people with sick mentality”. When Trump was asked during the NATO summit in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday whether the ceasefire with Iran was over, he said, “I think it is over. I don’t want to have anything to do with them anymore, they are bad people.” “They are nasty and sick people, they are led by sick people, and they are cruel and violent people. And if they had nuclear weapons, they would definitely use them.”