https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...ight-grnvn7gxl
Ships sabotaged as Iran warns it is ready to fight
Four merchant ships were targeted in a “sabotage operation” off the coast of the United Arab Emirates yesterday, the government said, as tensions rise between Iran and the United States. The foreign ministry of the UAE, a US ally, said that “four commercial, civilian trading vessels of various nationalities suffered acts of sabotage” off its eastern coast in the Gulf of Oman. It gave no indication of who might be responsible......
The UAE authorities had denied reports in Lebanese media, which is seen as sympathetic to Iran’s local proxy, Hezbollah, that there had been several explosions at the Fujairah port oil terminal. The reports were widely circulated by Iranian and Russian news sites and on social media.
Fujairah is in a key location near the Strait of Hormuz, a critical corridor for the global energy market that Iran has repeatedly threatened to block. Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, head of the Iranian parliament’s national security committee, said reports of “explosions” showed that the security of Gulf states was “like glass”........