Iran accuses US of ‘destabilising’ maritime safety and security
- US jet fired on an Iran-flagged tanker on May 6, damaging its rudder
- Incident follows what Iran has called ‘piracy-style’ seizures in the Indian Ocean
- Transits through the beleaguered strait have slowed this week despite promises of imminent peace
US ‘acts of aggression’ and seizures of Iranian vessels set a ‘dangerous precedent’, the Iranian representative to the IMO said in a letter to secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez, but the Islamic Republic may not be best-placed to make that argument
