Docked ship reportedly seized outside UAE port by “unauthorised personnel”
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has said ships entering the strait of Hormuz must cooperate with the Iranian navy as reports emerged of a ship being seized outside a United Arab Emirate port and taken towards Iranian waters.
The UK Maritime Trading Organisation said the docked ship was seized by “unauthorised personnel” while it was anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah near the southern entry to the strait of Hormuz.
Araghchi, who was in India for a meeting of the Brics group of nations, described Iran as invincible and said: “In our view, the strait of Hormuz is open to all commercial ships, but they must cooperate with our naval forces.”
During the meeting, he also told the UAE delegate that cooperation with Israel would not protect the Gulf state. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he made a secret trip to the UAE at the height of the war to meet the president, a claim that has been denied by the UAE.
