While yesterday, according to reports from the British Winward, the Strait of Hormuz has been crossed by only four ships, equal to 3% of ship traffic in the area before the Israeli-American attacks on Iran, and while the president Donald Trump has just stated that, "given that we have placed the Strait of Hormuz under the control of the USA, we should change its name to "Trump's Strait", the latest incident in the bottleneck that connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman caused the death of two crew members of the ship hit by three bullets on Monday while passing in the Strait ( of 1 September 2026). To be attacked was another a unit of the Bahri fleet. The company of Saudi navigation has announced in the past few hours that it has been the very large crude carrier Sidr of 301 thousand hit tons deadweight and that the accident resulted in the death of of two seafarers of Filipino nationality.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia has expressed condemnation "for the attack launched by the Islamic Republic against the Saudi oil tanker Sidr during the transit through the Strait of Hormuz, which caused deaths between the crew".