Two additional vessels belonging to the state oil company ADNOC were attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE government said Thursday, in an incident that caused no injuries but prompted Abu Dhabi to demand Tehran fully and unconditionally reopen the waterway.
The UAE Foreign Ministry condemned the strike as an act of piracy by Iran's Revolutionary Guard and said it constituted a flagrant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2817, which protects freedom of navigation. Abu Dhabi called on Iran to cease all hostilities and guarantee the strait's full reopening.
The latest attack follows a missile strike on an ADNOC tanker on 8 August. The near-total halt of shipping through Hormuz has choked a route that before the war carried a fifth of the world's oil. Iran has demanded an end to US threats, a lifting of the naval blockade on its ports, full US military withdrawal and war reparations before restoring passage. Hostilities between the US-Israel coalition and Iran resumed in early July after a June ceasefire protocol collapsed.