{"id":227279,"date":"2026-10-12T03:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/hormuz-attacks-intensify-as-efforts-to-end-war-on-iran-stall-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T03:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:10:36","slug":"hormuz-attacks-intensify-as-efforts-to-end-war-on-iran-stall-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/hormuz-attacks-intensify-as-efforts-to-end-war-on-iran-stall-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"Hormuz attacks intensify as efforts to end war on Iran stall – Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"

IRGC warns against ignoring the \u2018security and rules\u2019 of the strategic waterway as US CENTCOM says it disabled vessel trying to run naval blockade.<\/em>
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US bombs cargo vessel in Gulf of Oman 'trying to run Iran blockade'
Tehran, Iran
Tehran, Iran \u2013<\/strong> Strikes around the strategic Strait of Hormuz have picked up again as mediated efforts to end the US-Israel war on Iran remain deadlocked.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said on Saturday night that an unnamed crude oil supertanker hit a naval mine and suffered a major fire while using an unauthorised route in the waterway with navigation systems turned off. In a statement, it warned of a similar fate for any oil tanker that \u201cwishes to ignore the security and rules\u201d of the strait, through which one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil and gas passes in peacetime.
On Sunday, a senior Iranian army official told state television that the country\u2019s forces remain prepared for both defensive and offensive operations, more than seven months since the United States and Israel started the war by attacking Iran on February 28.
\u201cWe have struck blows against enemy vessels. If anything else happens against Iran, we will strike them again,\u201d said Habibollah Sayyari, chief of staff and joint coordinator of the army.
His comments came after the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported several incidents of military action or warnings against vessels<\/a> in the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman over the past day. It said ship masters in the vicinity of Ras al-Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), had been directed via radio broadcast overnight to move from their anchorages. And on Sunday afternoon, UKMTO reported \u2060an unidentified projectile had struck a tanker \u2060heading outbound through the Strait of \u2060Hormuz.
Separately, the UAE said its coastguard had rescued 22 crew members after a fire broke out at an unnamed tanker close to its shores, although it did not identify the cause of the blaze.
Early on Sunday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) released footage of a fighter jet bombing the stern of a Panama-flagged cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman and disabling its propulsion to enforce its naval blockade of Iran\u2019s southern ports<\/a>.
Since the US reimposed the blockade in mid-July, CENTCOM says its forces have disabled four commercial vessels, turned around 135 ships and destroyed 10 tankers linked with Iran. Washington says Tehran has exported no oil through the blockade line.
This comes as at least a dozen ships were attacked over the week ending on October 5, the highest number since the war began. At least one was hit off the north coast of Qatar<\/a>, signalling that the danger extends beyond the immediate Hormuz passage as Iran and the US vie for control.
The ship attacks appear to have decreased energy flows that had surpassed pre-war levels<\/a> at the start of the month. Kpler data cited by CNBC on Friday showed that average crude passing through the strait for the week ended October 7 was 8.5 million barrels per day, roughly 40 percent below the normal level.
To reopen the strait and reach a resolution to the war, Iran has demanded a return to a now-collapsed memorandum of understanding that was agreed in June, as well as Washington\u2019s backing of an already finalised Iran-Oman deal that designates temporary coordinated entry and exit routes for vessels transiting the strait.
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Messages continue to be exchanged between the two sides through mediators, although no breakthrough is expected in the coming weeks leading to the US midterm vote, set to take place on November 3, and Israel\u2019s election, due on October 27.
US Vice President JD Vance said last week that Iran must make a \u201cmeaningful\u201d reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity to end the war, signalling a potential easing of the oft-repeated US demand that zero enrichment must take place on Iranian soil.
Tehran has said a nuclear agreement potentially involving diluting its high-enriched uranium can be part of the later stages of\u00a0talks, but has emphasised it will not abandon enrichment altogether.
\u201cThe achievements of our indigenous nuclear industry cannot be stopped,\u201d Iran\u2019s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said during a speech on Sunday, pointing to electricity generation as a main use case.
He also renewed criticism against the International Atomic Energy Agency for not condemning repeated US threats to again bomb Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities<\/a>.
Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told reporters on Sunday that authorities plan on using military and diplomatic avenues to get what they want.
\u201cThe Islamic Republic will decisively pursue the country\u2019s interests,\u201d he said. \u201cIf those interests can be secured through diplomacy, that is much better, but if not, we will secure them in the field of battle\u201d.<\/p>\n

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