UN agency pauses Hormuz ship evacuation plan after first vessel attack under peace deal
The pause follows a container ship being struck near the coast of Oman on Thursday, with a U.S. official saying that Iran was responsible for the attack.
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The International Maritime Organization has paused its efforts aimed at evacuating ships and seafarers stranded inside the Middle East Gulf after a vessel was attacked in the Gulf of Oman. The pause follows a container ship being struck by an unknown projectile near the coast of Oman on Thursday, with a U.S. official telling MS Now that Iran was behind the attack. The evacuation plan would be temporarily paused "in order to reconfirm that the necessary safety guarantees continue to be in place for the ships on our evacuation list and all those in the region," Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, said in a statement. When asked about its response to the attack, a U.S.
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