A Thai flagged ship crossed this Tuesday the Strait of Hormuz -affected by war of the United States and Israel against Iran– after “close coordination” with the authorities of the Persian country and Oman, the Iranian embassy in Thailand reported this Tuesday.
A Thai flagged ship crossed this Tuesday the Strait of Hormuz -affected by war of the United States and Israel against Iran– after “close coordination” with the authorities of the Persian country and Oman, the Iranian embassy in Thailand reported this Tuesday.
“We inform the Thai population that, thanks to the close collaboration between our country and the Sultanate of Oman, a Thai ship has crossed the Strait of Hormuz without incident. We value our friendship and we will not forget our friends,” the Iranian diplomatic legation in Bangkok reported in X.
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The Republic has blocked this strategic route through which 20% of international crude oil transits due to the conflict with the United States and Israel, but has announced that it is allowing ships from friendly countries to pass.
This blockade has created problems in many countries. Today, the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., declared a national state of energy emergency, amid supply shortages as a result of the war against Iran, which especially affects Asian nations, dependent on shipments from the Strait of Hormuz.
The president of the United States, donald trumpordered on Monday to postpone attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days, after having given a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran to carry out this type of offensive if it did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, key to global energy trade.
File photograph of a Liberian-flagged Shenlong tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Photo: EFE/EPA/Divyakant Solanki
Iran, for its part, had responded by warning that it was prepared to completely close the Strait of Hormuz and attack energy and technological infrastructure, as well as desalination plants in the region.
He Hormuz blockadewhere around 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas circulates in peacetime, Tehran, which controls its northern shore, is one of the centers of tension in the US and Israel war against the Persian country.
