UAE: Targeting navigation in the Strait of Hormuz by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard constitutes piracy that threatens global energy security

The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed in a statement on Saturday that this attack constitutes a blatant violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2817, which underscores freedom of navigation and rejects the targeting of commercial vessels or the disruption of international sea lanes. It stressed that “targeting commercial navigation and using the Strait of Hormuz as a tool for economic pressure or blackmail constitutes acts of piracy by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, posing a direct threat to the stability of the region and its peoples, as well as to global energy security.”

The UAE reaffirmed the necessity for Iran to halt these aggressive attacks, thereby ensuring its full commitment to ceasing all hostile acts and fully and unconditionally reopening the strait, in order to safeguard regional security and the stability of the global economy and trade.