The UK Maritime Trade Operations Center, on Thursday, 21 Aban, in a statement quoted from the Joint Maritime Information Center, announced that the level of security threat in the Strait of Hormuz is “severe,” and that the likelihood of further attacks on oil tankers and other vessels in this area is very high.

According to this statement, four attacks on oil tankers have been recorded in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf during the past 96 hours—two in the Strait of Hormuz and two more in the Persian Gulf.

The center warned that the likelihood of further attacks on oil tankers and other vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, especially near the Omani coast of Musandam, is very high.