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By Jon Gambrell54%
7/7/2026, 1:12:41 AM
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The British military says a second ship has been hit in the Strait of Hormuz.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center made the announcement Tuesday, hours after it said a tanker traveling off the coast of Oman in the strait was struck by a projectile and caught fire.
It was the latest attack targeting a vessel moving through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
The agency said the second ship was believed to have sustained structural damage, but no one was injured.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A tanker traveling off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz was struck by a projectile and caught fire early Tuesday, the British military said, in the latest attack targeting a vessel moving through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
Iranian state television said the liquefied natural gas tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings but did not directly claim the assault.
Tehran, which has repeatedly declared that only its approved route through the strait is safe, is suspected of attacking other ships that have used another route close to the Omani shore.
In peacetime, a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed through the channel.
Meanwhile, talks between Iran and the United States appeared to be on hold until after the burial of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the beginning of the war.
Mourners at his funeral have called for the death of U.S.
President Donald Trump.
Authorities flew Khamenei’s body to the Shiite seminary city of Qom, where mourners honored him Tuesday.
Tanker struck in latest attack in strait
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said the tanker was hit near Limah, Oman, in the strait.
The UKMTO said the projectile hit the port side of the vessel as it tried to travel south out of the strait toward the Gulf of Oman.
The agency said there were no environmental effects from the strike and that authorities were investigating.
Iranian state TV, quoting anonymous sources, implied that Tehran carried out the assault on a tanker it said was carrying natural gas from Qatar.
However, there was no official claim from the Islamic Republic for the attack.
But the Joint Maritime Information Center, a multinational body overseen by the U.S.
Navy, told shippers Monday that the route around Oman “has been expanded and remains available for all traffic.”
Speaking Monday at the White House, Trump warned Iran that it would need to “make a deal, or we’re going to finish the job.”
“I’d rather make a deal, because I don’t want to affect 91 million people,” Trump said.
“We can knock down their bridges in one hour.
We can knock out their energy supply.”
Iran and the United States agreed as part of an interim deal to allow ships to pass without paying charges for 60 days.
But Tehran insisted it must control the routes of the vessels and later charge fees for passage, which would upend decades of practice in the waterway.
The U.S. and many Gulf Arab states say they will not agree to Iran charging for passage through the strait.
An effort by Oman and a United Nations agency to launch a new route near Oman’s shore earlier sparked attacks across the Mideast.
The data firm Kpler reported that over last weekend at least 108 ships crossed through the strait using various routes.
Mourners gather in Qom for Khamenei’s funeral
Iranian state television early Tuesday aired live images from a helicopter of hundreds of thousands of people walking toward Jamkaran Mosque, just south of Qom, for a funeral service for Khamenei.
Shiites believe the mosque once hosted the Muhammad al-Mahdi, the 12th and last Shiite imam, who disappeared in the 9th century and will one day reappear to bring justice to the world.
Images of Khamenei and his son, Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, were displayed on banners and posters held by mourners.
Mojtaba Khamenei has yet to make an appearance in the funeral ceremonies, which are unfolding over several days.
He is believed to be in hiding after reportedly being wounded in the airstrike that killed his father.
Authorities have shut down streets, airspace and daily life for the mourning, which began Saturday and will end Thursday as Khamenei is buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, his birthplace.
Khamenei was 86.
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