THREE tankers were struck by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz today, the latest attacks targeting vessels moving through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.

The new assaults threatened to choke off the flow of traffic in the strait just as countries hoped to restore normal shipping practices and ease the global economic strain of the US and Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran.

One of the tankers was travelling off the coast of Oman and caught fire, according to Britain’s Maritime Trade Operations centre.

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