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2026-05-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Two More Ships Attacked Near Strait of Hormuz – One Seized, One Sunk
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[Breitbart] Two more ships have reportedly been attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, including an Indian-flagged cargo ship that caught fire and sank off the coast of Oman and a ship that was “taken by unauthorized personnel whilst at anchor” — pirates who sailed it toward Iranian territorial waters.
The Indian ship was identified by maritime security firms as the MSV Haj Ali, a wooden barge about 175 feet long that was carrying livestock from the port of Berbera, Somalia, to the United Arab Emirates.
The Haj Ali was rocked by a “major explosion,” possibly caused by a drone or missile attack, which started a fire on board. The ship’s fourteen crew members were rescued by the Omani Coast Guard, but the ship sank off the coast of Oman on Wednesday, presumably with most or all of the livestock still on board.
Indian and Omani authorities did not immediately name the attacker, but it was most likely Iran, which has been using terror attacks to prevent ships from passing through the Strait of Hormuz unless they submit to extortion by the regime in Tehran.
British navy monitor says vessel anchored off coast of UAEA has been nabbed; India condemns sinking of cargo ship carrying livestock off Oman, 114 crew rescued
A ship anchored off the east coast of the United Arab Emirates has been seized and was heading toward Iranian waters, the British military said Thursday, while India said a fat merchantman was sunk amid the volatile, simmering battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said it received reports that the vessel was taken by unauthorized personnel while anchored 38 nautical miles (70 kilometers, or 44 miles) northeast of the UAE port of Fujairah, near the Strait of Hormuz.
Fujairah is an important oil export terminal and the UAE’s main port outside of the Persian Gulf. It has been repeatedly attacked during the war with Iran.
UKMTO did not name the ship and said it is investigating. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the seizure.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
an Indian cargo vessel carrying livestock from Africa to the United Arab Emirates was sunk in waters off the coast of Oman.
India condemned the attack and said all 14 crew members had been rescued by the Omani coastguard. Vanguard, a British maritime security advisory firm, said the vessel had been hit by a missile or drone which caused a kaboom.
Iran’s foreign minister, meanwhile, accused the UAE of direct involvement in military operations against his country, during a BRICS meeting in New Delhi, according to Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency.
"I didn’t name the UAE in my statement for the sake of unity. But the truth is that the UAE was directly involved in the aggression against my country. When the attacks started, they didn’t even issue a condemnation," Araghchi said, according to Mehr news, in response to comments made by the Emirati representative.
Earlier this week, a report said that the UAE, which has been repeatedly attacked by Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
since the start of fighting, carried out strikes on Iran, though it has not publicly acknowledged taking such action.
The accusation came hours after Israel said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had quietly visited the UAE during the Israeli-US war with Iran, though the UAE swiftly denied that any secret visit had occurred.
Araghchi also called on BRICS member states — which include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Æthiopia, and Indonesia — to condemn what he said were violations of international law by the United States and Israel, and to prevent the politicization of international institutions, in a statement on his Telegram account.
"The West’s false sense of superiority and immunity must be shattered by all of us," he wrote.
Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, meanwhile, reported that the Islamic Theocratic Republic has begun allowing some Chinese vessels to transit through the Strait, following an understanding over Iranian management protocols for the waterway.
The news came as US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
was in Beijing to meet with leader Xi Jinping on a much-anticipated visit. The leaders’ talks were expected to focus, among other things, on the war with Iran, which has seriously disrupted trade in oil, gas, and other products and rattled the global economy.
A White House statement issued as the two were meeting said the sides "agreed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open to support the free flow of energy," and that "Iran can never have a nuclear weapon."
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is in China’s best interests and he believes Beijing will do what it can to reopen the waterway.
"I think they’re going to do what they can," Bessent said in an interview with CNBC from Beijing. "China, it’s very much in their interest to get the strait reopened, and I think they will be working behind the scenes to the extent anyone has any say over the Iranian leadership."
In an earlier interview from Air Force One, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
had made a similar argument to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, noting that China has ships in the Gulf, one of which was struck by Iran over the weekend.
"I’m sure Iran didn’t do it deliberately but they did it, it happened," Rubio said. "And so that’s why these Chinese ships are stuck in there."
He added that Iran’s behavior is "a huge source of instability. It threatens to destabilize Asia more than any other part of the world because it’s heavily reliant on the straits for energy."
Rubio also argued that China has an economic interest in getting shipping to flow through the Strait of Hormuz again, as if other countries are struggling, "they are going to be buying less Chinese product and the Chinese exports are going to drop precipitously. So it’s in their interest to resolve this."
But diplomacy to end the war has been on hold since last week when Iran and the United States each rejected the other’s latest proposals, sticking to initial demands that each considers to be "red lines."
Iran has largely shut the Strait of Hormuz to ships apart from its own since the United States and Israel launched their bombing campaign two-and-a-half months ago, causing the biggest ever disruption to global energy supplies. The US paused the bombing last month but added a blockade of Iran’s ports.
Still, Iran appears to be making more deals with countries to allow some ships to pass through the strait — if they accept Tehran’s terms.
A Japanese tanker crossed on Wednesday after Japan’s prime minister announced that she had requested help from the Iranian president. A huge Chinese tanker also crossed on Wednesday.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said 30 vessels had crossed the strait since Wednesday evening, still far short of some 140 that typically crossed daily before the war, but a substantial increase if confirmed.
Israel and the US launched their campaign against Iran on February 28 in a bid to destabilize the regime and destroy its nuclear and ballistic missile capacities. Iran has responded with missile and dronezaps across the region.
The pause in bombing that began on April 8 was to allow for what Trump said were promising peace talks. But after a single round of talks in Pakistain last month, there has been little progress and no further face-to-face meetings.
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