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Shipping traffic through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz is recovering one week after the U.S. and Iran signed an interim peace deal.
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The pause follows a container ship being struck near the coast of Oman on Thursday, with a U.S. official saying that Iran was responsible for the attack.
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The attack, confirmed by U.S. and Iranian officials, came after Tehran threatened to disrupt shipping in the waterway and as Washington sought regional support for its peace agreement.
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The United Nations' shipping agency on Thursday said it would pause an evacuation effort ?to get hundreds of stranded ships out through the Strait of Hormuz after a vessel was attacked ?in the Gulf of Oman."I have ?been informed of an attack today ?in the Gulf of Oman on ?a vessel which passed through the Strait ?of Hormuz," Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General of the ?U
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