Abu Dhabi, May 4 -- The UAE government today said that a tanker owned by the Abu Dhabi state energy giant ADNOC was targeted by two drones as it attempted to transit the Strait of Hormuz, condemning what it called an "Iranian terrorist attack".
Two Iranian drones targeted the energy carrier "affiliated with ADNOC as it transited through the Strait of Hormuz, with no injuries reported," the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, though it did not provide much details.
According to the UAE Foreign Ministry, Iran was "targeting commercial shipping and using the Strait of Hormuz as a tool of economic coercion or blackmail" by acts of "piracy" by its IRGC, "constituting a direct threat to the stability of the region, its peoples,...