The head of the International Maritime Organization has warned that deploying warships to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz is not a sustainable solution and will not guarantee their safe passage.
The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has warned that military escorts for commercial vessels navigating the Strait of Hormuz will fail to ensure their security. The statements, originally made to the Financial Times and Reuters, were widely amplified across Persian-language media on Tuesday.
The Iranian state-aligned network فارس بینالملل و سیاست خارجی underscored the threat to energy markets, reporting that "escorts by warships will not guarantee the safe passage of oil tankers from the Strait of Hormuz." A similar tone was adopted by the Saudi-affiliated channel العربیه فارسی, which highlighted the IMO's position that relying on naval escorts in the strategic chokepoint is "not a sustainable solution."
Breaking news aggregator خبرفوری جنگ🚨اخبارفوری امریکا فوری quoted the IMO head directly, stating that naval escorts "will not provide a complete guarantee for ship safety" and that military assistance is "not a 'sustainable solution' to open the navigation corridor." These remarks were consistently echoed by mainstream domestic outlets like آخرین خبر and the unlinked breaking news channel خبری پلاس|خبرفوری 🔖فوری, which cited Reuters in its coverage.
The IMO's assessment arrives in the wake of unprecedented regional military conflict, including massive reciprocal strikes between Iranian forces and the US-Israeli coalition, as well as the destruction of targets on Iran's Kharg Island. The international body's statements align with the recent diplomatic reality wherein several European and Asian nations have actively refused to join a US-led military coalition tasked with securing the volatile strait.
All sources across the Persian media spectrum, from state-aligned Fars News to Saudi-backed Al Arabiya Farsi, are uniformly reporting the IMO's statement without pushback. The coordinated focus highlights a broad regional consensus regarding the acute vulnerability of maritime shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.