
Rob Miller
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Strait of Hormuz: Iran conducted a drone attack targeting a Singapore-flagged cargo ship approximately eight nautical miles southeast of Dahit, Oman, on June 25. A US official told the New York Times on June 26 that US forces struck four Iranian missile and drone storage facilities along the strait and on Qeshm Island in response. Iranian forces then conducted a drone attack against US positions in Bahrain on June 27. Bahraini air defenses intercepted one drone, while a second drone landed in a remote area. United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) subsequently reported on June 27 that an unspecified projectile struck a tanker off the coast of Oman. Iran likely attacked the vessel because it was presumably using the southern route along Oman’s coast to transit through the strait instead of Iran’s illegitimate traffic separation scheme (TSS). The international community has recently attempted to circumvent Iran’s TSS, undermining Iranian efforts to establish control over the strait. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Oman announced a joint effort on June 23 to move hundreds of stranded vessels through the strait through a designated safe route along the Omani coast. The IMO paused this effort on June 26 after Iran attacked the Singapore-flagged cargo ship on June 25, however. The Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC), which operates under the US-led Combined Maritime Forces, told UKMTO on June 27 that the southern route in the Strait of Hormuz has been expanded to accommodate simultaneous inbound and outbound traffic. It is unclear whether the southern route described by the JMIC is distinct from the IMO-Omani route.


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