SUA încearcă să redeschidă Strâmtoarea Hormuz, EAU susține că Iranul a reluat atacurile

THE UNITED ARAB Emirates said it came under attack by Iran for the first time since a fragile ceasefire took hold in early April.
The attacks appeared to be in response to US President Donald Trump’s latest efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for global energy.
The UAE Defence Ministry said Iran had launched four cruise missiles, with three shot down and one falling into the sea. Authorities in the eastern emirate of Fujairah said an Iranian drone sparked a fire at a key oil facility, wounding three Indian nationals.
The British military reported two cargo vessels ablaze off the UAE.
The attacks came after the US military said that two American-flagged merchant ships had successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz after it launched a new initiative to restore traffic.
Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command, told reporters that American forces have opened a passage through the strait and that US military helicopters have sunk six Iranian small boats that were targeting civilian vessels.
He said Iran has launched multiple cruise missiles, drones and small boats at ships the US military is protecting, and that “each and every one” of the threats had been defeated.
Breaking Iran’s chokehold over the strait would ease global economic concerns and deny Tehran a major source of leverage. But such efforts also risk reigniting the full-scale fighting that erupted when the US and Israel first attacked Iran on February 28, prompting it to close the strait.
Iran’s effective closure of the strait, which runs between Iran and Oman, has caused a spike in worldwide fuel prices and rattled the global economy. The US-led Joint Maritime Information Centre is now advising ships to cross the strait in Oman’s waters, saying it set up an “enhanced security area”.
It was unclear whether shipping companies and their insurers will feel comfortable taking the risk, given that Iran has fired on ships in the waterway and vowed to keep doing so. Hundreds of ships have been bottled up in the Persian Gulf for weeks.
Iran has said the new US effort is a violation of the fragile ceasefire that has held for more than three weeks.
The US military’s Central Command said the two American-flagged merchant ships were “safely headed on their journey” after transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It said Navy guided-missile destroyers in the Persian Gulf were helping to restore traffic.
Its statement on X said that US destroyers had also transited the strait. It did not say when the Navy ships arrived or when the merchant vessels departed.
Trump’s announcement yesterday that the US would “guide” ships out of the strait warned that Iranian efforts to block them “will, unfortunately, have to be dealt with forcefully”.
He described “Project Freedom” in humanitarian terms, designed to aid stranded seafarers who have been stuck in the Persian Gulf since the war began.
Crews have described to The Associated Press seeing drones