Gulf states condemn missile strike on Adnoc tanker in Hormuz

What happened

• The tanker was hit in the early hours of Saturday, 8 August; Adnoc said the situation was under control.
• No details were released on the vessel, its cargo or any damage; The National calls it the 16th Adnoc ship hit.
• Adnoc said on Friday, 7 August that 15 of its vessels had been attacked since the war began, three of them that week.
• UKMTO reported another ship struck by an unknown projectile 18 nautical miles east of Khasab, Oman; the fire was extinguished, the crew safe.
• US and Israeli strikes started the war on 28 February; Hormuz previously carried about a fifth of the world's oil and gas.

The view from outside

TASS reported only the UKMTO account of the burning cargo ship off Oman, naming no attacker and omitting the Adnoc strike entirely. Le Monde adds that Washington has blockaded Iranian ports since the mid-June memorandum whose alleged violations Tehran now invokes.

What could happen next

• Talks in Muscat continue on a new transit route to replace the Traffic Separation Scheme, with military-to-military contacts on an interim arrangement.
• No date exists for reopening the strait; the service fees Iran wants to levy stay unresolved.
• Neither Iran nor the Revolutionary Guards claimed the tanker strike, and UKMTO did not identify who fired at the second ship.