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Panicked sailors pleaded with the Iranian navy after coming under fire in the Strait of Hormuz.
An audio recording revealed a tense exchange between the crew on board an Indian-flagged oil tanker and Iranian officials enforcing military control over the waterway.
This is motor tanker Sanmar Herald. You gave me clearance to go. My name is second on your list. You are firing now. Let me turn back,” a voice says from the Sanmar Herald.
The incident is believed to be the first of its kind in recent weeks and came after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sealed the strait again in response to the US continuing its naval blockade.
It also appears to show that Iran’s naval capability remains a threat to shipping despite heavy US and Israeli air strikes.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations said the tanker was “approached by 2 IRGC gunboats” which later “fired upon” the vessel.
Around the same time, a container ship was hit by an unknown projectile in the strait, the body reported.
Iran’s armed forces on Sunday said they had turned back two further tankers attempting to transit the strait, the semi-official ⁠Tasnim news agency reported.
The Sanmar Herald incident also suggests that Iran still has enough gunboats to harass maritime traffic despite the seven-week bombardment.
Air strikes have sunk much of Tehran’s conventional navy of larger vessels, but the IRGC has spent years building up a “mosquito fleet” of small craft and speedboats.
The small and agile attack craft have been central to Tehran’s ability to close the strait, even against the might of far larger and more powerful US navy vessels.
It was not immediately clear what type of vessel or what sort of weapons had been used against the Sanmar Herald, but Iran’s small boats are said to be armed with everything from heavy machine guns to missiles and drones.
They can also drop sea mines, which is another crucial part of Tehran’s arsenal to keep the strait closed.
Last month, it was reported that Iran may have released mines into the waterway. While officials have not been clear on how many may be present, clearing them will be key to finally opening the strait, analysts say.
The US military has begun using remote-controlled sea drones to help clear the waterway, the Wall Street Journal reported.The US military has begun using remote-controlled sea drones to help clear the waterway, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Both the US navy and the Royal Navy have pivoted away from traditional minesweeper vessels in recent years to the use of drone boats and submarines to find and dispose of mines at a safe distance.
Meanwhile, US intelligence estimates reckon Iran has retained around two fifths of its drone arsenal.
Intelligence assessments say that Iran has been recovering missile launchers and missiles buried underground or under rubble.
When this is complete, the country will have access to as much as 60 per cent of its pre-war total of missile launchers and 70 per cent of its total of missiles, the New York Times reported.When this is complete, the country will have access to as much as 60 per cent of its pre-war total of missile launchers and 70 per cent of its total of missiles, the New York Times reported.
The assessment comes despite US officials declaring that destroying missile stocks and missile production were key war aims.
Donald Trump said in the early hours of the war that America would “destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground”.
Majid Mousavi, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s Aerospace Force, ⁠claimed it was now able to update and replenish its missile and ‌drone launchers at a higher rate than before the war.
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Pope Leo XIV has addressed tens of thousands of faithful near Angola’s capital, urging the country to overcome “divisions” and “corruption” during a landmark tour of Africa.
Speaking at an open-air Mass on Sunday in the town of Kilamba on the outskirts of Luanda, Leo addressed the country’s civil war-scarred past that he said has brought “enmity and division, squandered resources and poverty”.
Today, there is a need to look to the future with hope and to build that hope. Do not be afraid to do so,” Leo said
The pontiff arrived in the Portuguese-speaking nation on Saturday for the third leg of a four-nation tour of the continent, which began in Algeria and Cameroon and will also include a stop in Equatorial Guinea.
At a meeting with Angolan officials, including President Joao Lourenco, Leo spoke out against the “suffering” and social and environmental “disasters” caused by the rampant exploitation of natural resources.
The remarks in Angola, which endured a decades-long civil war that ended in 2002, continued a theme of Leo’s 11-day tour, during which he has delivered pointed warnings against corruption and the plunder of the continent’s resources
The first United States-born pope has also delivered remarks seen as critical of the US-Israeli war in Iran and US policy, including calling US President Donald Trump’s threat to end Iran’s civilisation “unacceptable”
The pontiff’s rhetoric has put him at odds with Trump, who last week called the Catholic leader “weak” and “terrible for foreign policy”
Leo said he is not afraid of the Trump administration and will continue to speak out against war. But travelling from Cameroon to Angola on Saturday, Leo also said he has no interest in starting “a new debate” with the US president
Many people who attended the Mass at Kilamba arrived early in the morning in anticipation
“The pope coming here is a joy,” said ‌Sister Christina Matende, who arrived about 6am (05:00 GMT). “We are living in a moment of a lot of difficulties, and we are waiting for the blessing of the pope
From Kilamba, Leo is to travel 110km (70 miles) by helicopter to the town of Muxima, Angola’s most venerated pilgrimage site, where a 300-year-old church overlooks a river that was once a major slave-trading route
The church, with a statue of the Virgin Mary known affectionately as “Mama Muxima”, draws roughly two million pilgrims a year and large crowds are expected to meet the pope there.
The pope is then due to travel more than 800km (497 miles) from the capital to visit a retirement home in Saurimo, where he will celebrate another Mass before departing for Equatorial Guinea.
Catholic lawyer Domingos das Neves said the pope’s focus on social justice was welcome in Angola, which is struggling with “stark social asymmetries and inequalities”
“Angola is in great need of a guiding light to illuminate our collective efforts both within ecclesiastical institutions and the state, so that we do not forget the poor and the destitute,” das Neves told the AFP news agency
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