A ship in the Gulf of Oman has been boarded by \u201cunauthorised\u201d people early on Thursday morning, an advisory group run by the British military warned. Details about the incident remained unclear. The British military\u2019s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which provides warnings to sailors in the Middle East, said the incident began early Wednesday morning in waters between Oman and Iran in an area transited by ships coming in and out of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil traded passes.<\/p>\n
The UK military-run group described receiving a report from the ship\u2019s security manager of hearing \u201cunknown voices over the phone\u201d alongside the ship\u2019s captain. It said that further efforts to contact the ship had failed. The US Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet, which patrols the Mideast, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the incident. Iran and Oman did not immediately acknowledge the boarding. Since the collapse of Iran\u2019s nuclear deal, waters around the strait have seen a series of ship seizures by Iran, as well as assaults targeting shipping that the Navy has blamed on Tehran.<\/p>\n
Iran and the Navy also have had a series of tense encounters in the waterway, though recent attention has been focused on the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen attacking ships in the Red Sea amid Israel\u2019s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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