New escalation between the USA and Iran: shipping again in the crossfire

Bhargavi Suresh, mother of two sons, sits in a gray sari in front of her husband’s framed photo and cries: “My husband was not a soldier,” the British Arab news site quoted Middle East Eye the woman. Her husband is one of at least seven Indian sailors who died during the war between the USA, Israel and Iran. The Indian oil tanker on which Bhargavi Suresh’s husband worked was attacked by the US in June, before the framework agreement was signed, for failing to follow US orders.

6,000 sailors are stranded

Also at the new escalation between Iran and the USA Ships and their sailors in the crossfire: After the recent attack on the flying the Cypriot flag Container ship “GFS Galaxy” – this time an Iranian airstrike – another Indian sailor is missing. A large proportion of the sailors still stuck in the Persian Gulf come from If: 37 Indian-flagged ships carrying more than 1,100 sailors are stranded. Meager 6,000 sailors According to the UN, there are a total of

As long as the mutual shelling between Iran and the USA continues and the negotiated one armistice is broken, they will continue to do so. Even if US President Donald Trump on Sunday once again insisted that the Strait of Hormuz was open, while Tehran had declared that the road would be closed until further notice. There is great concern that which have recently increased slightly Oil prices could tighten strongly again. According to the news portal Axios Iranian Targets in the area of ​​the important shipping route were attacked. Merchant ships could continue to pass through the shipping route, the US military emphasized.

Iran had last week three merchant ships attacked that crossed the strait on a southern route along the Omani coast that Iran had not approved. The USA then responded with missiles. Since Thursday, the US military has targeted more than 300 targets, around 140 military targets have been hit and one Iranian soldier has been killed. Trump told NBC News on Sunday that they had it (from Iran, Anm.) “laid to rubble last night.”

Alert in Gulf States

Iran responded with attacks on the Gulf States – for the first time in weeks: three Iranian missiles hit Jordan. According to the army, air defense was deployed in Kuwait. Warning sirens sounded in the early hours of the morning in Bahrain. Qatar and the UAE said they repelled rocket attacks. There have been drone attacks in Oman.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards are determined to… Control of the Strait of Hormuz no longer to be handed over: In the framework agreement signed in mid-June, Tehran ensured that the USA agreed to the only approved shipping route near the Iranian coast. On Sunday, Mohsen Rezaee, a senior adviser to the – not publicly visible – Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khameneiquoted: “This strategic passage is more important than dozens of nuclear bombs, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will protect it.”

“The time for one-sided deals is OVER. We told you: keep your word or pay the price,” he wrote Iranian Speaker of Parliament and negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf X. That too Iranian The military accused Trump of not keeping promises. “The Americans are trying to impose an irregular route south of the Strait of Hormuz, that of the one with the Islamic Republic Iran “contradicts the signed agreement,” said military spokesman Amir Akraminia, according to the Iranian Tasnim News Agency.

According to the framework agreement, responsibility lies with IranAkraminia continued. Tehran is working with the Gulf state of Oman to “enforce a common understanding and common regulations in the region”.