{"id":604052,"date":"2026-09-02T22:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604052\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:12:09","slug":"saudi-arabia-condemns-deadly-iranian-attack-on-tanker-in-strait-of-hormuz-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604052\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia condemns deadly Iranian attack on tanker in Strait of Hormuz | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regional neighbours condemn attack this week that killed two crew members from the Philippines.<\/p>\n

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Saudi Arabia has condemned an Iranian attack on an oil tanker owned by its national shipping company that resulted in the deaths of two citizens of the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said Iran targeted the Sidr tanker, owned by national carrier Bahri, while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz two days earlier.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe kingdom stressed the necessity of halting escalations, and respecting international maritime safety and the security of global energy supplies,\u201d the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia\u2019s regional neighbours also condemned the attack, one of several recent incidents in the US-Israeli war with Iran<\/a> launched on February 28.<\/p>\n

Kuwait and Qatar\u2019s foreign ministries said the attack violated international law and freedom of maritime navigation.<\/p>\n

Qatar called the attack a \u201cflagrant violation of the rules of international law and freedom of maritime navigation\u201d.\u00a0Doha further rejected the use of the Strait of Hormuz as a \u201cbargaining chip\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bahri, meanwhile, also confirmed the death on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cBahri confirms that its vessel SIDR was involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz\u201d late on Monday, it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBahri remains in continuous contact with the vessel and is coordinating closely with the relevant authorities and maritime industry stakeholders, while continuing to closely monitor developments,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Iran has repeatedly attacked and threatened tankers attempting to sail through the strategic waterway without authorisation, impeding energy exports from neighbouring oil-rich Gulf countries.<\/p>\n

The US has maintained that vessels can safely transit the waterway, through which traffic has slowed considerably<\/a>.\u00a0 Washington has promised to continue its counter-blockade of Iranian ports indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Overnight Monday into Tuesday, unidentified projectiles struck two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, Greek maritime risk management firm Marisks had said.<\/p>\n

Both vessels loaded two million barrels of crude at Juaymah on Saudi Arabia\u2019s east coast last week, according to Kpler data.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard said two oil tankers caught fire after striking mines while transiting the strait.<\/p>\n

Before the US-Israel war with Iran began, about 20 percent of the world\u2019s oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

In July, another Bahri vessel, the Wedyan supertanker, was hit while passing through the strait close to Oman\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n

Two other Bahri vessels, Masa and Amzan, were attacked in the Red Sea in July and August after Yemen\u2019s Houthis declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regional neighbours condemn attack this week that killed two crew members from the Philippines. Published On 2 Sep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,47,43,16755,78,11110,40,38,41,39,162198],"class_list":["post-604052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shipping","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}