Live Updates: UAE accuses Iran of attacks in Strait of Hormuz as Vance says cheap oil and gas are "goal number one"

BREAKING: UAE accuses Iran of 'unprovoked attacks' on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, as US Vice President Vance says cheap oil and gas is 'goal number one'.

The UAE is accusing Iran of unprovoked attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

That's the narrowest chokepoint in global energy, roughly a fifth of the world's oil moves through that stretch of water, and now one Gulf state is publicly pointing the finger at another. File pictures show the kind of traffic we're talking about, huge tankers threading a passage barely thirty kilometres wide at its tightest.

And the timing of the American response is telling. Vice President Vance says cheap oil and gas is goal number one for Washington. Not de-escalation, not freedom of navigation, cheap energy. That tells you exactly what the White House is worried about if this shipping lane gets contested.

Iran hasn't accepted the accusation, and the details of the attacks are still thin. But when Abu Dhabi says the word unprovoked out loud, on the record, that's a region choosing its language very carefully.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.

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